The Forest Journey: The Story of Trees and Civilization by John Perlin

The Forest Journey: The Story of Trees and Civilization

John Perlin

521 pages first pub 1989 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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A Foundational Conservation Story RevivedAncient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poet Ovid wrote that before civilization began, “even the pine tree stood on its own very hills” but wh...

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