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New York City of Trees - Hardcover

Swett, Benjamin

 
9781593720520: New York City of Trees
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1593720521 ISBN 13: 9781593720520
Verlag: The Quantuck Lane Press, 2013

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We know thattrees improve living conditions in cities by filtering and cooling the air,absorbing excess rainwater, and making neighborhoods more attractive. Butlittle has been said about their role as witnesses to the city s past untilnow.Inthis collection of personal narratives, historical observations, and colorphotographs, Benjamin Swett focuses on great trees with stories to tell, addinga warm and welcome narrative that is unique to the city and its cosmopolitancharacter. The stories of these trees, from all five boroughs some dating fromthe Revolutionary era and before link the living with the past in an engagingway not found in other books.Ashow of the photographs from the book will take place at the Arsenal Gallery inCentral Park, March 6 through April 18, 2013.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The former director of the Parks in Print program at the New York City Parks Department, Benjamin Swett is best known for Great Trees of New York City: A Guide; Bronx River New York; Fort Greene Park Brooklyn; Route 22, and many other publications. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and three children.

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If you love New York and you love trees, then you must read Benjamin Swett s beautiful book, New York City of Trees. Swett describes the city s trees with the perceptiveness of an accomplished naturalist and the artistry of a gifted photographer. Edward S. Barnard, author of New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area New York is a city built atop a forest. And in a forest, every tree has a story. As this wonderfully personal account of the trees of New York City amply demonstrates, the trees are still here, idiosyncratic, communicative, full of personality, standing for the ages with a resolute perseverance that does our forest-city proud. Through Benjamin Swett s photographs and text, you will come to know your neighbors, make new friends, hear their tales, tell them yours, and expand your notion of what it means to be a New Yorker. I heartily recommend it. Eric Sanderson, Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, and author of Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City

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Verlag
The Quantuck Lane Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1593720521
ISBN 13 
9781593720520
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
152
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