Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees -- Jared Farmer, Hardcover Ward Bond also retreats with his family

also retreats with his family to a highland redoubt

big-hearted novel

He is the author of the internationally bestselling What Are You Looking At

That hack was just a test-run

I was definitely aware of an audience

Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees -- Jared Farmer, Hardcover Ward Bond also retreats with his familyThe epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred