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• Title:Around the world in 80 trees / Jonathan Drori ; illustrations by Lucille Clerc.
  
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• Variant Title:Around the world in eighty trees
  
• Author/Creator:Drori, Jonathan, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Clerc, Lucille, illustrator.
  
• Published/Created:London, United Kingdom : Laurence King Publishing, 2018.
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QK46.5.H85 D76 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Trees.
  Trees--Ecology.
  Human-plant relationships.
  
• Description:240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:Trees are one of humanity's most constant and most varied companions. From India's sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration--not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin and silk to space shuttles and telephone lines. In Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori uses plant science to illuminate how trees play a role in every part of human life, from the romantic to the regrettable. Stops on the trip include the lime trees of Berlin's Unter den Linden boulevard, which intoxicate amorous Germans and hungry bees alike, the swankiest streets in nineteenth-century London, which were paved with Australian eucalyptus wood, and the redwood forests of California, where the secret to the trees' soaring heights can be found in the properties of the tiniest drops of water. Each of these strange and true tales--populated by self-mummifying monks, tree-climbing goats and ever-so-slightly radioactive nuts--is illustrated by Lucille Clerc, taking the reader on a journey that is as informative as it is beautiful. --amazon.com.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-234) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781786271617 (hardback)
  1786271613
  
• Contents:Northern Europe ; Southern Europe and North Africa
  Eastern Mediterranean
  Africa
  Central and South Asia
  East Asia
  South East Asia
  Oceania
  South America
  Mexico, Central America and Caribbean
  North America.