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From science writer Jane Bosveld comes the story of one giant sequoia. We are there for its chancy beginnings as a seedling over three thousand years ago; we chart its magnificent growth-first straight up, to claim a piece of the crowded forest sky, and then out to diameter the equivalent of forty people holding hands in a ring.
Re-creating the tree's life, the author shows how it lived through hundreds of forest fires (a substance in its bark prevents it from burning); housed birds, animals, and insects by the millions; and was visited by generations of American Indians, including the Miwoks and Wukchumnis.
At the same time the tree offers a unique chronology, a living time line. While the tree was growing . . . the Greeks tricked the Trojans with a giant horse. While the tree was growing . . . Siddhartha Guatama is born, becomes Buddha, the "awakened one," and founds a new religion. While the tree was growing . . . Cleopatra rules Egypt, Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa, Shakespeare writes Hamlet, Thomas Edison invents the photograph, and astronauts walk on the moon.
And while that same tree was growing . . . you were born.
A unique chronicle combining history, biology, Native American folklore, and more, WHILE A TREE WAS GROWING tells the story of one giant sequoia and the key events that have occurred during its lifetime. Here it is as a sapling, struggling to hold its place in the forest, while the Chinese are beginning to develop writing; fifteen centuries later, when Jesus is born, it is a full-grown sequoia, over 200 feet tall; and when the first settlers cross the Sierra Nevada, this fire-scarred survivor has lived for over three thousand years. Full-page, full color paintings throughout evoke the life of the tree and its animal neighbors, while illustrations and photographs accompany the time-line narration. A pull-out poster is included with the book.
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