Tree Story - The History of the World Written in Rings Broken Dimanche Press Professorin für Neuere Geschichte)

Professorin für Neuere Geschichte)

With every breath

Kathleen Jamie

—Colm Tóibín

Tree Story - The History of the World Written in Rings Broken Dimanche Press Professorin für Neuere Geschichte)People across the world know that to tell how old a tree is, you count its rings. Few people, however, know that research into tree rings has also made amazing contributions to our understanding of Earth's climate history and its influences on human civilization over the past 2,000 years. In her captivating book Tree Story, Valerie Trouet reveals how the seemingly simple and relatively familiar concept of counting tree rings has inspired far reaching