Twelve Trees - And What They Tell Us About Our Past, Present and Future

About the author

Daniel Lewis is the Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in Southern California, and a writer, college professor, and environmental historian. He writes about the biological sciences and their intersections with extinction, policy, culture, history, politics, law, and literature. Lewis holds the PhD in history and has held post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford, the Smithsonian, the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, and elsewhere. Lewis also serves on the faculty at Caltech, where he teaches environmental humanities courses, as well as at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He is also currently serving a five-year term on the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission, as a Bird Red List Authority member. His previous books include Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai’i and The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds.

Product details

• Authors: DAN LEWIS, Daniel Lewis
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.03.2025
• EAN: 9781398518872
• ISBN: 978-1-398-51887-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Nature guide; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; NATURE / Plants / General, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest