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Tree Bark: A Color Guide
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by:
Vaucher, Hugues
Eckenwalder, James E.
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Publisher:
Timber Press
Published: OR
ISBN: 0881925764
Format:Hardcover
Pages:260
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Book Description
From Book News, Inc.
Presents hundreds of exquisite color photographs of the bark of trees from around the world, with a substantial introduction discussing the kinds of bark that exist, their structures, functions, characteristics, and uses in the
arts and industry. Includes a glossary. Translated, revised, and much enlarged from Guide des ecorces, published in 1993, and in 1990 as Baumrinden.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Product Description:
How often do we overlook
bark, a frequently beautiful and always important part of the plant, focusing instead on leaves, flowers, and the shape of the trunk and branches? Hugues Vaucher, a Swiss watchmaker with a lifelong fondness for trees and an eye for detail, illustrates
the rich variety of colors, patterns, and textures of bark with more than 550 photographs in Tree Bark: A Color Guide. For a number of the trees, he provides photographs of younger and older specimens, showing the distinctive changes that age makes in
bark, which must develop and expand to accommodate the growth of the tree.
This unique book also covers the diversity of bark in chapters on the structure, anatomy, and physical properties of this "clothing" of trees. Though humans have tended
to concentrate on the uses of wood, bark has nonetheless lent itself to a rich variety of applications, and a chapter documents the surprisingly varied ethnobotany of bark. The medicinal properties of several types of bark are carefully outlined, and the
reader will never think of cork as just a bottle-stopper again.
Originally published in French and German in the early 1990s, this new Timber Press edition of Tree Bark has been improved and expanded to include more than 440 species and
varieties of trees from around the world. For this new book, tropical and subtropical trees, and trees from the Southern Hemisphere, have been added to broaden the coverage.
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