Tree story : the history of the world written in rings / Valerie Trouet

Author:: Trouet, Valerie
Published:: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Copyright Date:: ©2020
Physical Description:: 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Trees in the Desert -- I Count the Rings Down in Africa -- Adonis, Methusaleh, and Prometheus -- And the Tree Was Happy -- The Stone Age, the Plague, and Shipwrecks under the City -- The Hockey Stick Poster Child -- Wind of Change -- Winter Is Coming -- Three Tree-Ring Scientists Walk into a Bar -- Ghosts, Orphans, and Extraterrestrials -- Disintegration, or The Fall of Rome -- It's the End of the World as We Know It -- Once upon a Time in the West -- Will the Wind Ever Remember? -- After the Gold Rush -- The Forest for the Trees -- Playlist -- List of Tree Species.

Summary:

"This book tells engaging stories about the science of dendrochronology, the study of tree growth rings. From studying tree rings, scientists can learn about the past climate on earth, and sometimes tree-ring data provide evidence of natural events that affected human history. Connecting natural history (as read through tree rings) to human history is at the heart of this book"--

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ISBN:

9781421437774 hardcover
1421437775 hardcover

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235) and index.

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