Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest / Suzanne Simard.
Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest / Suzanne Simard.
Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest / Suzanne Simard.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Call Numbers
G 2021/0865
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
[xi], 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: Connections -- Ghosts in the forest -- Hand fallers -- Parched -- Treed -- Killing soil -- Alder swales -- Bar fight -- Radioactive -- Quid pro quo -- Painting rocks -- Miss Birch -- Nine-hour commute -- Core sampling -- Birthdays -- Passing the wand -- Epilogue: The Mother Tree projec...
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2021.
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"A personal and scientific work on trees, forests, and the author's profound discoveries of tree communication"-- Provided by publisher.
Simard illuminates the fascinating and vital truths: that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different...
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Full title
Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest / Suzanne Simard.
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
"This is a Borzoi book" -- title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-332) and index.
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Date Copyright
©2021
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Call Numbers
G 2021/0865
Record Identifier
74VKaRArEdgl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaRArEdgl
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ISBN
052565609X
9780525656098
DDC
333.75
MMS ID
991024394110202626
