Trees in Paradise: A California History by Jared Farmer - 2013-10-28

NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 552 pages, b&w illustrations. California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It's the work of history. n the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. Horticulturists, boosters, and civic reformers began to "improve" the bare, brown countryside, planting millions of trees to create groves, wooded suburbs, and landscaped cities. They imported the blue-green eucalypts whose tangy fragrance was thought to cure malaria. They built the lucrative "Orange Empire" on the sweet juice and thick skin of the Washington navel, an industrial fruit. They lined their streets with graceful palms to announce that they were not in the Midwest anymore. To the north the majestic coastal redwoods inspired awe and invited exploitation.… Read More

W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition , October 28, 2013. advance copy- First Edition edition. Paperback. Very Good/none. This is an Advanced Reading Copy. Softcover is very good showing only minor edge wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It’s the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. Horticulturists, boosters, and civic reformers began to "improve" the bare, brown countryside, planting millions of trees to create groves, wooded suburbs, and landscaped cities. They imported the blue-green eucalypts whose tangy fragrance was thought to cure malaria. They built the lucrative "Orange Empire" on the sweet juice and thick skin of the Washington navel, an industrial fruit. They lined their streets with graceful palms to… Read More

W. W. Norton & Company, 2013 First Printing (full # line) in $35.00-priced dust jacket BRAND NEW, no remainder mark, pristine new copy; 8vo; (xl) 552pp indexed & illus. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New.

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W W Norton & Co Inc, 2013. Hardcover. New. 592 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.75 inches.