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(0)Peter R Crane
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Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xix, 384 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Perhaps the world's most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people first found it useful about a thousand years ago. Today ginkgo is beloved for the elegance of its leaves, prized for its edible nuts, and revered for its longevity. This engaging book tells the rich...
Author
Publisher
Prospecta Press, an imprint of Easton Studio Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
160 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Closer to the North Pole than to the Arctic Circle, on an island in a remote Norwegian archipelago, lies a vast global seed bank buried within a frozen mountain. At the end of a 130-meter long tunnel chiseled out of solid stone is a room filled with humanity's precious treasure, the largest and most diverse seed collection ever assembled: more than a half billion seeds containing the world's most prized crops, a safeguard against catastrophic starvation....