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 : 15,57 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 : David L. Haberman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,52 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 : Richard Neville Parker
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Trees
ISBN :
Author : Steve Houser
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1623494486
In this unprecedented effort to gather and share knowledge of the Native American practice of creating, designating, and making use of marker trees, an arborist, an anthropologist, and a Comanche tribal officer have merged their wisdom, research, and years of personal experience to create Comanche Marker Trees of Texas. A genuine marker tree is a rare find—only six of these natural and cultural treasures have been officially documented in Texas and recognized by the Comanche Nation. The latter third of the book highlights the characteristics of these six marker trees and gives an up-to-date history of each, displaying beautiful photographs of these long-standing, misshapen, controversial symbols that have withstood the tests of time and human activity. Thoroughly researched and richly illustrated with maps, drawings, and photographs of trees, this book offers a close look at the unique cultural significance of these living witnesses to our history and provides detailed guidelines on how to recognize, research, and report potential marker tree candidates.
Author : Sir Dietrich Brandis
Publisher :
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Dennis Downes
Publisher : Chicago's Books Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,99 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 : Bhajju Shyam
Publisher : Tara Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,13 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 : Pippa Mukherjee
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195687989
Part of the 'WWF-OUP Nature Guides' series, Trees of India discusses forty-three tree species, most of which can be commonly found in India. Pippa Mukherjee's detailed descriptions, complemented by colour illustrations of the tree and its leaves, fruits, and flowers, reveal the unique characteristics and uses of a wide variety of trees found in India.
Author : Guy Sternberg
Publisher : Portland : Timber Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 11,94 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 : Diane Cook
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1683351770
Leading landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel present Wise Trees—a stunning photography book containing more than 50 historical trees with remarkable stories from around the world. Supported by grants from the Expedition Council of the National Geographic Society, Cook and Jenshel spent two years traveling to fifty-nine sites across five continents to photograph some of the world’s most historic and inspirational trees. Trees, they tell us, can live without us, but we cannot live without them. Not only do trees provide us with the oxygen we breathe, food gathered from their branches, and wood for both fuel and shelter, but they have been essential to the spiritual and cultural life of civilizations around the world. From Luna, the Coastal Redwood in California that became an international symbol when activist Julia Butterfly Hill sat for 738 days on a platform nestled in its branches to save it from logging, to the Bodhi Tree, the sacred fig in India that is a direct descendent of the tree under which Buddha attained enlightenment, Cook and Jenshel reveal trees that have impacted and shaped our lives, our traditions, and our feelings about nature. There are also survivor trees, including a camphor tree in Nagasaki that endured the atomic bomb, an American elm in Oklahoma City, and the 9/11 Survivor Tree, a Callery pear at the 9/11 Memorial. All of the trees were carefully selected for their role in human dramas. This project both reflects and inspires awareness of the enduring role of trees in nurturing and sheltering humanity. Photographers, environmentalists, history buffs, and nature-lovers alike will appreciate the extraordinary stories found within the pages of Wise Trees!