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New England Natives

Sheila Connor

出版	Harvard University Press, 1993
主題	History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)History / Social HistoryNature / EcologyNature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & RainforestsNature / Plants / GeneralNature / Plants / TreesNature / RegionalScience / Life Sciences / BiologyScience / Life Sciences / BotanyScience / Earth Sciences / General
ISBN	06746135039780674613508
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zdssAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Taking us back to the birth of New England's forests, Sheila Connor shows us these trees evolving amidst a succession of human cultures, from the archaic Indians who crafted canoes from white birch and snowshoes from ash, to the colonists who built ships of oak and pine, to the industrialists who laid railroad tracks on chestnut timber, to the tanners who used hemlock bark to treat the leather required to shoe the Union army. In this engaging narrative, cultural history affords insights into forestry, botany, horticulture, and ecology, which in turn illuminate the course of human conduct in a wooded land. Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, this book will delight readers with a special interest in the trees of the region, as well as those who wonder what our American culture owes to nature.