New England Natives/a Celebration of People and Trees

by Connor, Sheila

• ISBN13: 9780674613508
• ISBN10: 0674613503
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-11-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

Taking us back to the birth of New England's forests, Sheila Connor shows us these trees evolving amidst a succession of human cultures, from the Archaic Indians who crafted canoes from white birch and snowshoes from ash, to the colonists who built ships of oak and pine, to the industrialists who laid railroad tracks on chestnut timber, to the tanners who used hemlock bark to treat the leather required to shoe the Union army. In this engaging narrative, cultural history affords insights into forestry, botany, horticulture, and ecology, which in turn illuminate the course of human conduct in a wooded land. Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, this book will delight readers with a special interest in the trees of the region, as well as those who wonder what our American culture owes to nature.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
A Place in the Forest	p. 1
This Wooden World	p. 49
Trees in the Marketplace and in the Garden	p. 112
The New Yankee Forest	p. 172
Bibliography	p. 252
Illustration Credits	p. 264
Index	p. 268
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