The Wisdom of Trees by Adams, Max -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Welcome Page Dedication Contents Prologue: The wisdom of trees Chapter 1: Thinking about trees

Enlightenment Autumn Brown and sticky Trees of liberty Foresight Tree tale The Birch

Chapter 2: Ingenious trees

What trees do Trees with latitude Solar panels Family tree Tree tale The Rowan

Chapter 3: Offspring

Sex before insects Spring Making babies Pioneers Massive oak The human hand Tree tale The Apple

Chapter 4: Trees at war

This means war Conventional weapons Plan B Battle of the trees The wood of life Tree tale The Yew

Chapter 5: Trees in company

A palette of forests Life in the woods Saint Columba's coppice The rarest tree Woodwards and Pallisters Tree tale The Scots pine

Chapter 6: Innovation

Useful lessons Getting the point Terraforming Ascension Island The luthier Tree tale The Hazel

Chapter 7: The Wood Age

Axe, adze and wedge Summer The first carpenters Stonehenge decoded? The Nobel Prize-winning woodworker Tree tale The Beech

Chapter 8: Engineers

Hormones Machines Hydraulics Bodgers How high can a tree be? Standing up straight Tree tale Hawthorn

Chapter 9: The Charcoal Age

Material gain Making charcoal The sword in the stone Seahenge Riddley Walker Colemen and Colliers Tree tale The Holly

Chapter 10: Architects

Size matters The first house Houses for the dead Firewood At home with Saint Columba Tree tale The Oak

Chapter 11: Tree pasts

How old is it? Trees of Middle-earth Chesapeake End of the age How to spot an ancient wood Tree tale The Elm

Chapter 12: Tree futures

Heroes A few words on paper How to buy a woodland Forest gardens Ashington Winter Tree tale The Ash

Epilogue: Woodlanders Preview Glossary Acknowledgements Index About this Book Reviews About the Author Also by this Author An Invitation from the Publisher Copyright

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