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American chestnut : the life, death, and rebirth of a perfect tree /
The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees—a "perfect tree" that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. But in the early twentieth century, an exotic plague swept through the chestnut forests with the force of a wildfire. Within forty years, th...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2007.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Map of American chestnut distribution in 1938
- Introduction
- pt. 1
- 1. Where there are chestnuts
- 2. A new scourge
- 3. Let us not talk about impossibilities
- 4. A whole world dying
- pt. 2
- 5. Rolling the dice
- 6. Evil tendencies cancel
- 7. Let us plant
- 8. Chestnut 2.0
- 9. Faith in a seed
- Conclusion : the comeback
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index