The Ancients

Discovering the world's oldest surviving trees in wild Tasmania

Andrew Darby (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2025
Allen & Unwin (Verlag)
9781761069239 (ISBN)

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Prize-winning writer Andrew Darby explores Tasmania's ancient trees, some ten thousand years old, and the people protecting these living dinosaur-era survivors.

Deep in Tasmania's remote valleys and mountains grow trees whose direct ancestors lived with dinosaurs. Many are thousands of years old, some over ten millennia. Prize-winning nature writer Andrew Darby takes us on an island odyssey to discover these ancient survivors: the mysterious King's Lomatia, perhaps the oldest single tree alive; the primeval King Billy, Pencil and Huon pines with their stories of human admiration and destruction; and the majestic giant eucalypts. He shares tales of the scientists and nature-lovers who identified these ancients and now work to protect them from climate change and fire, offering hope for their future.

Andrew Darby is the author of Flight Lines, on long distance migratory shorebirds, and Harpoon on whales and whaling. Flight Lines won the Royal Zoological Society of NSW's Whitley Award for the Best Natural History, and the Premier's Prize for Non-fiction in the Tasmanian Literary Awards. It was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award for Non-fiction. He was the Hobart correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

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ONE Camouflage King's Lomatia
TWO Dinosaur King Billy Pine
THREE Pine of Olympus Pencil Pine
FOUR Water Tree Huon Pine
FIVE Overshadow Giant Eucalypts
SIX The Green Myrtle Beech
SEVEN The Gold Fagus
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Chapter notes

Erscheinungsdatum	11.03.2025
Verlagsort	St Leonards
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-13	9781761069239 / 9781761069239
Zustand	Neuware