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A garden of bristlecones : tales of change in the Great Basin / Michael P. Cohen.
Author
Cohen, Michael P., 1944-
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Reno : University of Nevada Press, c1998.
Description
xxii, 308 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.
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ReCAP - Remote Storage
QK494.5.P66 C64 1998
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Great Basin bristlecone pine
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Great Basin bristlecone pine
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History
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Forest ecology
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Great Basin
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Natural history
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Great Basin
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Series
Environmental arts and humanities series
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Summary note
"Since Edmund Schulman discovered in 1958 that individual bristlecones live nearly 5,000 years, the trees have been investigated primarily for the elaborate record their rings contain." "The trees have been "read" closely, with major consequences for natural and human history. Historians have read local and global environmental change. Archaeologists have rewritten the history of civilization. Writers have transformed them into figures pertinent to the human dilemmas of time and eternity. A Garden of Bristlecones investigates professional and popular conceptions as a set of narratives drawn from the outside and from the inside of the trees. It reveals the premises of the investigators, the nature of their inquiry, and the extent of their knowledge, while also revealing the Great Basin bristlecone itself."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-301) and index.
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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
Introduction: A Book of Changes
1. Somewhere Between Colorado and California
2. The Calculus of Change
3. The Purloined Tree
4. Capturing a Cloud: On the Stability and Movement of Bristlecone Forests
5. The Upper Edge
6. Recovering the Forest
7. How Bristlecones Came to the Great Basin
8. Figures of a Tree
9. An Aesthetic of Bristlecones
10. The Trees in Town
11. The Trees Just Out of Town
12. Walks in Woods
Afterword: Ron and Charlie.
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ISBN
0874172969 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^97023933^
OCLC
37322098
RCP
H - S
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