Gods, wasps, and stranglers : the secret history and redemptive future of fig trees / Mike Shanahan.
Material type: TextPublisher: White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, 2016Description: 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781603587143
- 1603587144
- 9781603587976
- 1603587977
- QK495.M73 S53 2016
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SB364 .N27 2011 Dates : a global history / | SB365 .L26 2011 Figs : the Genus Ficus / | SB365 .R45 2021 Growing figs in cold climates : a complete guide / | SB365 .S42 2016 Gods, wasps, and stranglers : the secret history and redemptive future of fig trees / | SB365 .S86 1977 The Fig (Ficus carica Linnaeus) : its biology, history, culture, and utilization / | SB365 .S88 2014 Figs : a global history / | SB367 .D55 2004 The angel tree / |
"Originally published in the United Kingdom by Unbound in 2016 as Ladders to Heaven." - t.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-196).
Snakes and ladders & tantalising figs -- Trees of life, trees of knowledge -- A long seduction -- Banyans and the birth of botany -- Botanical monkeys -- Sex & violence in the hanging gardens -- Struggles for existence -- Goodbye to the gardeners, hello to the heat -- From dependence to domination -- The war of the trees -- The testimony of volcanoes -- Once destroyed, forever lost? -- A wedding invitation.
They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers rainforest royalty more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers tells their amazing story.