The Book of Leaves: A Leaf-by-Leaf Guide to Six Hundred of the World's Great Trees
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (729 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226139735 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 656 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The Book of Leaves offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most impressive and beautiful leaves from around the world. Or the Mediterranean Olive, which has been known to live for more than 1,500 years and whose short, narrow leaves only fall after two or three years, pushed out in stages by the emergence of younger leaves.From the familiar friends of our backyards to the giants of deep woods, The Book of Leaves brings the forest to life—and to our living rooms—as never before.. Of all our childhood memories, few are quite as thrilling, or as tactile, as those of climbing trees. Each leaf is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the range, distribution, abundance, and habitat of the tree on which it’s found. Scampering up th
It reminds you that wonderful things are often right under your nose. "Clearly, I have lost my head and am swooning under the spell of The Book of Leaves. This big, beautiful, shiny, sumptuous, and informational volume will enhance your appreciation of the natural world, but it does something else as well. It needs to be spread out on a kitchen table, preferably with a couple of kids hovering nearby, so that yuo can all marvel at the colors and shapes that have been here all along, hidden in plain sight."
A Terrific Book to Help With Tree Identification P. Pollock Wow what a phenomenal book!! I was so excited when this book came in the mail. I bought it as a "stab in the dark", right before I hit the trail for field exploration in the Andes. Thanks to other readers for pointing out the virtues of this book. The author has done a tremendous job to take 600 of the major trees of the world, and give an exact lifelike photo of the leaves of that tree. Each page goes with one species of tree. There is a small map showing the distribution (global), a sketch dhowing. Specialty Book with Wide Appeal Nancy L. Morton "The Book of Leaves" is appealing to many readers, perhaps even more than Alan Coombs, the author and Zsolt Debreczy, his editor, even imagined. The book features leaves from 600 trees, one to a page. Each page presents a full-sized photograph of the leaf, a smaller photograph in the case of compound leaves, a short description of the tree and leaf, a world-map showing the origin of the tree, a sketch of the tree with an estimate of its size, a chart with relevant facts on the tree and a short paragr. A Unique, Wonderful and Complete Tree & Leaf Reference Book I purchased this book after reading a great review of it in the Chicago Tribune. It is just as the review described -- a great reference book for the trees of the world, complete with copies of the leaves, typically pictured in their exact size. After perusing the book, I soon recognized, however, that it would be great if the authors could publish a sequel that would limit the coverage just to the trees of the United States and not the entire world. Clearly, this sequel would be of a much-reduced si