Elderflora

Jared Farmer brings both classic and state-of-the-art botany alive … he shows singular insight into how we do what we do—and perhaps more importantly—why we spend our lives studying trees. – Hope Jahren, author of Lab Girl
While it is true that the trees have no tongues, that doesn’t mean they don’t speak to us … Read Jared Farmer’s lucid and fascinating book to discover the … mysteries told by elderflora. – Michael Mann, author of The New Climate War
Sacred trees … are at the root of historian Jared Farmer’s magisterial study of arboreal longevity, but like the outstretched limbs of a luxuriant elm, his narrative extends over a broad range of social and scientific issues. – Laurence A. Marschall * Natural History *
The book succeeds as a cultural history of the conservation ideal that led society to forest preservation. – David W. Stahle * Science *
[An] expansive global history of grand and venerable trees. – Josie Glausiusz * Nature *
A sweeping, exceptional tribute to the oldest living organisms on Earth. – Rebecca Coffey * Forbes *
Short of actually having the honor of spending time in the presence of elderflora, I think Elderflora is the next best thing to provoke a sense of wonder. – Dominic Boyer * The Berlin Journal *

Jared Farmer is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. A former Andrew Carnegie Fellow, he is the author of several books, including Elderflora and On Zion’s Mount, which won the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. He lives in Philadelphia.

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