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The oldest living things in the world
- Title
- The oldest living things in the world / Rachel Sussman ; with essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Carl Zimmer ; photography editor: Christina Louise Costello ; infographics: Michael Paukner.
- Author
- Sussman, Rachel, 1975-
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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- Description
- xxxiii, 269 pages : color illustrations; 27 x 30 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Contents
- Art essay : the future is invented with fragments from the past / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Science essay : how lives become long / Carl Zimmer -- Infographic 1 : OLTW world map -- North America. Giant sequoia ; Bristlecone pine ; Creosote bush ; Mojave yucca ; Honey mushroom ; Box huckleberry ; Palmer's oak ; Pando ; The Senator ; Map lichens -- Infographic 2 : Linnean taxonomy -- South America. Llareta (or yareta) ; Alerce ; Brain coral -- Europe. Fortingall yew ; Chestnut of 100 horses ; Posidonia sea grass ; Olive ; Spruce -- Infographic 3 : deep timeline -- Asia. J'mon sugi ; Sri maha bodhi ; Siberian actinobacteria -- Africa. Baobab ; Underground forests ; Welwitschia -- Australia. Antarctic beech ; Tasmanian lomatia ; Huon pine ; Eucalyptus : NSW and WA ; Stromatolites -- Antarctica. Antarctic moss -- Infographic 4 : growth strategy -- Roads not (yet) taken -- Researchers, guides, guests, and "a little way through."
- ISBN
- 9780226057507 (cloth : alkaline paper)
- 022605750X (cloth : alkaline paper)
- LCCN
- 2013048562
- 99958616315
- OCLC
- ocn865452381
- 865452381
- SCSB-5745406
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries