Publication

2017 - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Language

English

Word Count

38,000 words, Guess

Page Count

152 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCQK475
  • LCCPN6110.T75 B37 2017

Description

"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower over us and yet fade into background. Their lifespan outstrips ours, and yet their wisdom remains inscrutable, treasured up in the heartwood. They serve us in many ways--as keel, lodgepole, and execution site--and yet to become human, we had to come down from their limbs. In this book Matthew Battles follows the tree's branches across art, poetry, and landscape, marking the edges of imagination with wildness and shadow."-- "Explores via art and literature our complicated material and economic entanglements with trees and their products"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • TreeBloomsbury Publishing Plc2017

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