American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation

by Eric Rutkow

Book Overview

This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nation's history.

Eric Rutkow's "deeply fascinating" (The Boston Globe) work shows how trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country's rise as both an empire and a civilization. Among American Canopy's many captivating stories:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439193584
• ISBN13: 9781439193587
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

American Canopy historically documents the crucial importance of American trees in the building of a

Recommended read for anyone truly interested in the active role trees have filled in America and the worldwide importance of same. Extensively footnoted and brilliantly tied together. Of special interest to lovers of Nature, Dendrology or Dendrochronology.