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Author Sussman, Rachel, 1975-
Title The oldest living things in the world / Rachel Sussman ; with essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Carl Zimmer ; photography editor, Christina Louise Costello ; infographics, Michael Paukner.
Publication Info. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Description xxxiii, 269 pages : color illustrations, map ; 26 cm
Note Includes indexes
Contents The future is invented with fragments from the past / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- How lives become long / Carl Zimmer -- North America. Giant sequoia ; Bristlecone pine ; Creosote bush ; Mojave yucca ; Honey mushroom ; Box huckleberry ; Palmer's oak ; Pando ; The Senator ; Map lichens -- Linnean taxonomy -- South America. Llareta (or yareta) ; Alerce ; Brain coral -- Europe. Fortingall yew ; Chestnut of 100 horses ; Posidonia sea grass ; Olive ; Spruce --Deep timeline -- Asia. Jōmon sugi ; Sri maha bodhi ; Siberian actinobacteria -- Africa. Baobab ; Underground forests ; Welwitschia -- Australia. Antarctic beech ; Tasmanian lomatia ; Huon pine ; Eucalyptus : New South Wales ; Eucalyptus: Western Australia ; Stromatolites -- Antarctica. Moss: Elephant Island ; Moss: South Georgia -- Growth strategy -- Roads not (yet) taken -- Researchers, guides, guests, and "a little way through."
Subject Longevity.
Longevity in art.
Organisms -- Pictorial works.
Genre or Form Pictorial works.
Added Author Costello, Christina Louise, editor of photography.
Paukner, Michael, author of infographics.
Obrist, Hans Ulrich, writer of added commentary.
Zimmer, Carl, 1966- writer of added commentary.
ISBN 9780226057507 (cloth : alk. paper)
022605750X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226057644 (e-book)


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