Research Catalog

Title

Sprout lands : tending the endless gift of trees / William Bryant Logan.

Author

Logan, William Bryant

Publication

• New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xiv, 332 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn't destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach." --Dust jacket.

Subject

• Trees
• Human-plant relationships
• GARDENING / Trees
• NATURE / Plants / Trees

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A tree to save New York -- Forgotten words -- Remembering -- The sprout lands -- Favorite things -- Branching -- Spaghetti forest -- On the levels -- The invention of the street -- The spring -- Mother hazel -- To lay a hedge -- Can you handle it? -- Space invaders -- A walk in the twelfth century -- Boat wood -- Hill girt -- The commons -- Remembering the future -- The rhythm of trees -- Standing and sitting -- Instrument of light -- Making good sticks -- The paradise of sprouts -- When wood won't sprout -- Sami pine -- Harvest of mast -- Nagereba -- Into the woods -- Ever more -- Volunteers -- What White's willow said.

Call Number

JFE 19-5737

ISBN

• 9780393609417
• 0393609413

LCCN

• 2018055376
• 40029017946

OCLC

1080554781

Author

Logan, William Bryant, author.

Title

Sprout lands : tending the endless gift of trees / William Bryant Logan.

Publisher

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40029017946

Research Call Number

JFE 19-5737