Название:American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
Автор: Susan Freinkel
Издательство: University of California Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 298
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English
The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees--a "perfect tree" that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. But in the early twentieth century, an exotic plague swept through the chestnut forests with the force of a wildfire. Within forty years, the blight had killed close to four billion trees and left the species teetering on the brink of extinction.