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Trees in paradise : a California history / Jared Farmer.
- Title
- Trees in paradise : a California history / Jared Farmer.
- Author
- Farmer, Jared, 1974-
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F861 .F37 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xl, 552 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Describes how the first settlers in California changed the brown landscape there by creating groves, wooded suburbs and landscaped cities through planting eucalypts in the lowlands, citrus colonies in the south and palms in Los Angeles.
- Subject
- Landscape assessment > California > History
- Trees > California > History
- Giant sequoia > California > History
- Coast redwood > California > History
- Eucalyptus > California > History
- Citrus > California > History
- Palms > California > History
- Horticulture > United States > History
- Human ecology > United States > History
- California > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part One. Redwoods : The Value of Longevity -- Twilight of the giants -- The perpetual last stand -- Part Two. Eucalypts : The Taxonomy of Belonging -- Immigration and naturalization -- Natives, aliens, and (bio)diversity -- Part Three. Citruses : The Industry of Growth -- Orange revolution -- Cultural costs -- Part Four. Palms : The Ecology of Style -- Cosmopolitan fronds -- Aesthetic infrastructure -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Species.
- ISBN
- 9780393078022 (hardcover)
- 0393078027 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- ^^2013021309
- OCLC
- 829738439
- SCSB-11296162
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library