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Informationen zum Autor Mike Shanahan is a freelance writer with a doctorate in rainforest ecology. He has lived in a national park in Borneo! bred endangered penguins! investigated illegal bear farms! produced award-winning journalism and spent several weeks of his life at the annual United Nations climate change negotiations. He is interested in what people think about nature and our place in it. His freelance journalism includes work published by The Economist ! Nature ! The Ecologist and Ensia ! and chapters of Dry: Life without Water (Harvard University Press); Climate Change and the Media (Peter Lang Publishing) and Culture and Climate Change: Narratives (Shed). He is the illustrator of Extraordinary Animals (Greenwood Publishing Group) and maintains a blog called Under the Banyan . Klappentext Spanning 80 million years! this is a history of the fig tree and how it has weaved its way into human history. With 20 original! hand-drawn b/w illustrations by the author. Zusammenfassung They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. Thanks to this deal! figs sustain more species of birds and mammals than any other trees! making them vital to rainforests. The story of the fig trees stretches back tens of millions of years! but it is as relevant to our future as it is to our past. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Snakes & Ladders and Tantalising FigsChapter 2: Trees of Life! Trees of KnowledgeChapter 3: A Long SeductionChapter 4: Banyans and the Birth of BotanyChapter 5: Botanical MonkeysChapter 6: Sex & Violence in the Hanging GardensChapter 7: Struggles for ExistenceChapter 8: Goodbye to the Gardeners! Hello to the HeatChapter 9: From Dependence to DominionChapter 10: The War of the TreesChapter 11: The Testimony of VolcanoesChapter 12: Once Destroyed! Forever Lost?Epilogue: A Wedding Invitation
