In The American Tree
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In The American Tree
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Author : Ronald Silliman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
In The American Tree written by Ronald Silliman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Poetry categories.
This anthology offers the most substantial collection of work by the Language Poets now available, along with 130 pages of theoretic statements by the poets represented. As such, it does for a new generation of American poets what Don Allen's New American Poetry did for an earlier generation. Poets represented include Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Clark Coolidge, Michael Davidson, Ray DiPalma, Robert Grenier, Lynn Hejinian, Fanny Howe, Susan Howe, Bernadette Mayer, Michael Palmer, Bob Perelman, Barrett Watten, and Hannah Weiner. "This historic anthology brings into long needed focus the only serious and concerted movement in American literature of the past two decades. It will be indispensable". -- Peter Schjeldahl
A Natural History Of North American Trees
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Author : Donald Culross Peattie
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-10
A Natural History Of North American Trees written by Donald Culross Peattie and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-10 with Nature categories.
"A volume for a lifetime" is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peatie's two books about American trees published in the 1950s. In this one-volume edition, modern readers are introduced to one of the best nature writers of the last century. As we read Peattie's eloquent and entertaining accounts of American trees, we catch glimpses of our country's history and past daily life that no textbook could ever illuminate so vividly. Here you'll learn about everything from how a species was discovered to the part it played in our country’s history. Pioneers often stabled an animal in the hollow heart of an old sycamore, and the whole family might live there until they could build a log cabin. The tuliptree, the tallest native hardwood, is easier to work than most softwood trees; Daniel Boone carved a sixty-foot canoe from one tree to carry his family from Kentucky into Spanish territory. In the days before the Revolution, the British and the colonists waged an undeclared war over New England's white pines, which made the best tall masts for fighting ships. It's fascinating to learn about the commercial uses of various woods -- for paper, fine furniture, fence posts, matchsticks, house framing, airplane wings, and dozens of other preplastic uses. But we cannot read this book without the occasional lump in our throats. The American elm was still alive when Peattie wrote, but as we read his account today we can see what caused its demise. Audubon's portrait of a pair of loving passenger pigeons in an American beech is considered by many to be his greatest painting. It certainly touched the poet in Donald Culross Peattie as he depicted the extinction of the passenger pigeon when the beech forest was destroyed. A Natural History of North American Trees gives us a picture of life in America from its earliest days to the middle of the last century. The information is always interesting, though often heartbreaking. While Peattie looks for the better side of man's nature, he reports sorrowfully on the greed and waste that have doomed so much of America's virgin forest.
American Canopy
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Author : Eric Rutkow
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-04-24
American Canopy written by Eric Rutkow and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-24 with History categories.
Explains how the story of trees in America reflects the nation's history, discussing the use of pines for British warships, the California orange groves that lured pioneers, and the enduring symbolism of trees for communities.
Field Book Of American Trees And Shrubs
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Author : Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
Field Book Of American Trees And Shrubs written by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with Shrubs categories.
Field book of American trees and shrubs a concise description of the character and color of species common throughout the United States, together with maps showing their general distribution.
American Chestnut
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Author : Susan Freinkel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2009-04
American Chestnut written by Susan Freinkel and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04 with Nature categories.
"In prose as strong and quietly beautiful as the American chestnut itself, Susan Freinkel profiles the silent catastrophe of a near-extinction and the impassioned struggle to bring a species back from the brink. Freinkel is a rare hybrid: equally fluid and in command as a science writer and a chronicler of historical events, and graced with the poise and skill to seamlessly graft these talents together. A perfect book."—Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Spook "A spellbinding, heart wrenching, and uplifting account of the American chestnut that asks the vastly important question: Have we learned enough, and do we care enough, to begin healing some of the wounds we've inflicted on the natural world?"—Scott Weidensaul, author of Return to Wild America and Mountains of the Heart "This is a beautifully written account of the passing of one of the botanical wonders of the North American landscape, the American chestnut tree, which was nearly extirpated by a plague that entered the ecosystem and swept these great trees away. Freinkel, a gifted writer whose research is impeccable and whose reporting is topnotch, tells of the impassioned work of scientists over the past century and up to today, trying to bring the American chestnut back from the brink of extinction. Only a person in love with trees could have written this lovely book."—Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone and The Wild Trees "Graceful, provocative, and inspiring. Thoreau would be proud."—Alan Burdick, author of Out of Eden, a 2005 National Book Award finalist "In this beautifully written volume, Susan Freinkel ably describes the marriage of science and passion that is being brought to bear to save this majestic American tree from extinction. The people whose ancestors lived among chestnut trees and their places come alive for the reader, as does the appearance and spread of the blight and the heroes who are struggling with it today. The book concludes with a tantalizing vision of chestnuts in the forests again—a thought of making the world right where it has gone wrong."—Peter H. Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden
National Audubon Society Field Guide To North American Trees
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Author : Elbert Luther Little
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 1980-06-12
National Audubon Society Field Guide To North American Trees written by Elbert Luther Little and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-06-12 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Identifies and illustrates 360 species in the area ranging from the eastern seaboard to the Rocky Mountains.
Trees Of North America
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Author : Christian Frank Brockman
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2001
Trees Of North America written by Christian Frank Brockman and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Trees categories.
Presents a handbook for the identification of over five hundred species of trees by illustration and text.
Field Guide To North American Trees
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Author : Thomas S. Elias
language : en
Publisher: Grolier, Incorporated
Release Date : 1989
Field Guide To North American Trees written by Thomas S. Elias and has been published by Grolier, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Nature categories.
National Audubon Society Field Guide To North American Trees E
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Author : Elbert Luther Little
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 1980-05-12
National Audubon Society Field Guide To North American Trees E written by Elbert Luther Little and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-05-12 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Identifies and illustrates 360 species in the area ranging from the eastern seaboard to the Rocky Mountains.
Historic Amer Trees
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Author : Katharine Stanley Nicholson
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2016-08-26
Historic Amer Trees written by Katharine Stanley Nicholson and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-26 with History categories.
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