A garden of bristlecones : tales of change in the Great Basin / Michael P. Cohen.

Author
Cohen, Michael P., 1944- [Browse]
Format
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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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Environmental arts and humanities series [More in this series]
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-301) and index.
    Action note
    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.
    ISBN
    0874172969 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    ^^^97023933^
    OCLC
    37322098
    RCP
    H - S
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