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27%OFFPeter Crane - Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot - 9780300213829 - V9780300213829
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Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot

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Description for Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot Paperback. Originally published in hardcover in 2013. Illustrator(s): Von Knorring, Pollyanna. Num Pages: 408 pages, 61 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PST; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 626.
Perhaps the world's most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people first found it useful about a thousand years ago. Today ginkgo is beloved for the elegance of its leaves, prized for its edible nuts, and revered for its longevity. This engaging book tells the rich and engaging story of a tree that people saved from extinction-a story that offers hope for other botanical biographies that are ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300213829
SKU
V9780300213829
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About Peter Crane
Peter Crane is Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean and professor, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, and former director of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. He divides his time between Oak Park, IL, and New Haven, CT.

Reviews for Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot
This intelligent, literate history is so enticing it will leave you greedy for more. -Dominique Browning, New York Times Book Review You might think you'd have to be a scholarly sort of tree hugger to wrap your mind around GINKGO: The Tree That Time Forgot, by Peter Crane, but this intelligent, literate history is so enticing ... Read more

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