Book Description
The Book of Indian Trees brings the reader, in one title, descriptions of more than 150 species of trees that the scientist, the conservationist and the nature enthusiast would come across in India and the rest of the Subcontinent.
Author : K. C. Sahni
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Gardening
ISBN :
The Book of Indian Trees brings the reader, in one title, descriptions of more than 150 species of trees that the scientist, the conservationist and the nature enthusiast would come across in India and the rest of the Subcontinent.
Author : Bhajju Shyam
Publisher : Tara Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 8186211926
A visual ode to trees rendered by tribal artists from India, in a handsome handcrafted edition.
Author : David L. Haberman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199929165
This is a book about religious conceptions of trees within the cultural world of tree worship at the tree shrines of northern India. Sacred trees have been worshipped for millennia in India and today tree worship continues there among all segments of society. In the past, tree worship was regarded by many Western anthropologists and scholars of religion as a prime example of childish animism or decadent ''popular religion.'' More recently this aspect of world religious cultures is almost completely ignored in the theoretical concerns of the day. David Haberman hopes to demonstrate that by seriously investigating the world of Indian tree worship, we can learn much about not only this prominent feature of the landscape of South Asian religion, but also something about the cultural construction of nature as well as religion overall. The title People Trees relates to the content of this book in at least six ways. First, although other sacred trees are examined, the pipal-arguably the most sacred tree in India-receives the greatest attention in this study. The Hindi word ''pipal'' is pronounced similarly to the English word ''people.''Second, the ''personhood'' of trees is a commonly accepted notion in India. Haberman was often told: ''This tree is a person just like you and me.'' Third, this is not a study of isolated trees in some remote wilderness area, but rather a study of trees in densely populated urban environments. This is a study of trees who live with people and people who live with trees. Fourth, the trees examined in this book have been planted and nurtured by people for many centuries. They seem to have benefited from human cultivation and flourished in environments managed by humans. Fifth, the book involves an examination of the human experience of trees, of the relationship between people and trees. Haberman is interested in people's sense of trees. And finally, the trees located in the neighborhood tree shrines of northern India are not controlled by a professional or elite class of priests. Common people have direct access to them and are free to worship them in their own way. They are part of the people's religion. Haberman hopes that this book will help readers expand their sense of the possible relationships that exist between humans and trees. By broadening our understanding of this relationship, he says, we may begin to think differently of the value of trees and the impact of deforestation and other human threats to trees.
Author : Ethelbert Blatter
Publisher :
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Botany
ISBN : 9780195621624
47 of India's most beautiful flowering trees are described and illustrated in this book. The authors draw heavily on the observations of naturalist contributors to the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
Author : Ashok S. Kothari
Publisher : Marg Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Botany
ISBN : 9788185026831
Commemorative volume on the occasion of golden jubilee of the National Society of the Friends of the Trees.
Author : Guy Sternberg
Publisher : Portland : Timber Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780881926071
Presents profiles of 650 species and varieties and over five hundred cultivars, with text and photographs of flowers and fruit, native and adaptive range, culture, problems, and best seasonal features.
Author : Dennis Downes
Publisher : Chicago's Books Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : Indian trails
ISBN : 9780979789281
America's first "road signs" were trees bent as saplings by the Indians, marking trails. They were part of an extensive land and water navigation system that was in place long before the arrival of the first European settlers.
Author : Sir Dietrich Brandis
Publisher :
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Pradip Krishen
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Trees
ISBN : 9780144000708
The book introduces you to every tree you are likely to see in the city or in semi-wilderness areas like the Ridge. You do not have to be a botanist to enjoy this book: everything is explained in simple language. This field guide will help you recognize many of the trees you will see around you. Extensive colour pictures and clear illustrations on how to use the annotated Leaf Keys make identification of individual trees easy.
Author : Harini Nagendra
Publisher : Viking
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2019-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780670091218
Native and imported, sacred and ordinary, culinary and floral, favourites of various kings and commoners over the centuries, trees are the most visible signs of nature in cities, fundamentally shaping their identities. Trees are storehouses of the complex origins and histories of city growth, coming as they do from different parts of the world, brought in by various local and colonial rulers. From the tree planted by Sarojini Naidu at Dehradun's clock tower to those planted by Sher Shah Suri and Jahangir on Grand Trunk Road, trees in India have served, above all, as memory keepers. They are our roots: their trunks our pillars, their bark our texture, and their branches our shade. Trees are nature's own museums. Drawing on extensive research, Cities and Canopies is a book about both the specific and the general aspects of these gentle life-giving creatures.