When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Henry Holt & CompanyISBN-13:9781250335166ISBN-10:1250335167UPC:9781250335166Book Category:Nature, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Plants, United States, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Trees, AmericanSize:8.38 x 5.80 x 1.13 inchesWeight:0.8907Product ID:SCA5818HN9
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy
This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees.
The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black Americans. Pecan trees were domesticated by an enslaved African named Antoine; sycamore trees were both havens and signposts for people trying to...Language:EnglishPublisher:Henry Holt & CompanyISBN-13:9781250335166ISBN-10:1250335167UPC:9781250335166Book Category:Nature, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Plants, United States, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Trees, AmericanSize:8.38 x 5.80 x 1.13 inchesWeight:0.8907Product ID:SCA5818HN9
Beronda L. Montgomery is an award-winning plant biologist and the author of the acclaimed Lessons from Plants (Harvard University Press, 2021). She has been named one of the journal Cell's 100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America, and was awarded the 2021 Cynthia Westcott Science Writing Award and 2022 Adolph E. Gude, Jr. Award for outstanding service to the science of plant biology. She was...
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