Oak: The Frame of Civilization
- ISBN-10
- 0393327787
- ISBN-13
- 9780393327786
- Series
- Oak
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-07-17
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- William Bryant Logan
Description
A history of the oak tree identifies its significance in religious rites, homemaking, travel, literature, and the outcome of key military conflicts, in an account that documents the communitarian and educational nature of the oak and what it reveals about the natural world's link to science, philosophy, spirituality, and other human disciplines. Reprint.
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