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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen A. Spongberg , Sam Bass Warner, Jr.Publisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Dimensions: Width: 2.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 8.70cm Weight: 1.270kg ISBN: 9780674766938ISBN 10: 0674766938 Pages: 270 Publication Date: 01 November 1990 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsCharming [and] handsomely illustrated...attractive...well-researched, and written with warmth and verve.--Ray Murphy Boston Globe Spongberg has written a grand adventure story about the migration of woody plants around the world... This tale of the traveling trees is a treasure for both specialist and amateur.--Ruth Johnstone Wales Christian Science Monitor Spongberg gives us a lively account of trees and shrubs and the colorful characters who escorted them from distant, frequently dangerous, places to the gardens of Europe and North America... [This] book brings a panoramic perspective to these explorations in one copiously illustrated and authoritative volume.--Christopher Reed Horticulture The peregrinations of the nurserymen, explorers, and philanthropists responsible for these exquisite florilegiums, not to mention the garden plants we now take for granted, have been superbly documented in A Reunion of Trees.--Linda Yang New York Times Book Review Charming �and� handsomely illustrated...attractive...well-researched, and written with warmth and verve. -- Ray Murphy Boston Globe Spongberg has written a grand adventure story about the migration of woody plants around the world...This tale of the traveling trees is a treasure for both specialist and amateur.--Ruth Johnstone Wales Christian Science Monitor Charming [and] handsomely illustrated...attractive...well-researched, and written with warmth and verve.--Ray Murphy Boston Globe Spongberg gives us a lively account of trees and shrubs and the colorful characters who escorted them from distant, frequently dangerous, places to the gardens of Europe and North America...[This] book brings a panoramic perspective to these explorations in one copiously illustrated and authoritative volume.--Christopher Reed Horticulture The peregrinations of the nurserymen, explorers, and philanthropists responsible for these exquisite florilegiums, not to mention the garden plants we now take for granted, have been superbly documented in A Reunion of Trees.--Linda Yang New York Times Book Review Spongberg gives us a lively account of trees and shrubs and the colorful characters who escorted them from distant, frequently dangerous, places to the gardens of Europe and North America...[This] book brings a panoramic perspective to these explorations in one copiously illustrated and authoritative volume. -- Christopher Reed Horticulture Author InformationStephen A. Spongberg is Horticultural Taxonomist at the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. Sam Bass Warner, Jr., is Visiting Professor of Urban History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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