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City of Trees
Choukas-Bradley, Melanie. Illus: Alexander, Polly
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Description for City of Trees
Paperback. Washington, DC, boasts more than three hundred species of trees from America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. This guide is suitable for locating, identifying, and learning about them. It gives the reader a guided tour of the nation's capital, highlighting historic and rare trees of the urban canopy. It also includes photographs of flowering trees. Illustrator(s): Alexander, Polly. Num Pages: 448 pages, 2 maps, 48 colour photos, 540 b&w line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBFC; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 213 x 32. Weight in Grams: 646.
Washington, D.C., boasts more than three hundred species of trees from America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and ""City of Trees"" has been the authoritative guide for locating, identifying, and learning about them for more than twenty-five years. The third edition is fully revised, updated, and expanded and includes an eloquent new foreword by the ""Washington Post's"" garden editor, Adrian Higgins.In the introduction, Choukas-Bradley describes the efforts of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other prominent Washingtonians who helped the nation's capital evolve into the ""City of Trees,"" a moniker regaining popularity thanks to present-day efforts encouraging citizen participation in tree planting ... Read more
Washington, D.C., boasts more than three hundred species of trees from America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and ""City of Trees"" has been the authoritative guide for locating, identifying, and learning about them for more than twenty-five years. The third edition is fully revised, updated, and expanded and includes an eloquent new foreword by the ""Washington Post's"" garden editor, Adrian Higgins.In the introduction, Choukas-Bradley describes the efforts of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other prominent Washingtonians who helped the nation's capital evolve into the ""City of Trees,"" a moniker regaining popularity thanks to present-day efforts encouraging citizen participation in tree planting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813926889
SKU
V9780813926889
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About Choukas-Bradley, Melanie. Illus: Alexander, Polly
Melanie Choukas-Bradley is the author of Sugarloaf: The Mountain's History, Geology, and Natural Lore (Virginia) and An Illustrated Guide to Eastern Woodland Wildflowers and Trees (Virginia). She is a long-time contributor to the Washington Post, a field botany instructor for the USDA Graduate School, and a field trip leader for the Audubon Naturalist Society. Polly Alexander lives in Essex Junction, ... Read more
Reviews for City of Trees
Definitive.... [The] book is not only full of trees, buds, catkins, berries... it is also full of history. - Christian Science Monitor