| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.4

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Book Review

Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscape of Louisiana and Guatemala. By Kit Anderson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xiii +183 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95

This book is a fun read, ideal for a summer afternoon. There is something about big old trees that commands respect to the point of reverence and this book captures it all. The book is about two taxa: the live oaks that dominate the coastal Louisiana landscape and the ceibas, the signature tree of the Guatemalan lowlands. In a way, we as humans identify with them, even across cultures, and they are "trees as men walking" through time and across the landscape.

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