Twelve Trees: And What They Tell Us About Our Past, Present and Future - Couverture rigide

Lewis, Daniel

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ISBN 10 : 1398518840 ISBN 13 : 9781398518841

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

A story of the history and future of the world, told through twelve species of tree

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Daniel Lewis is the Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in Southern California, and a writer, college professor, and environmental historian. He writes about the biological sciences and their intersections with extinction, policy, culture, history, politics, law, and literature. Lewis holds the PhD in history and has held post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford, the Smithsonian, the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, and elsewhere. Lewis also serves on the faculty at Caltech, where he teaches environmental humanities courses, as well as at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He is also currently serving a five-year term on the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission, as a Bird Red List Authority member. His previous books include Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai’i and The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1398518840
• ISBN 13: 9781398518841
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible