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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/865452381 Title: The oldest living things in the world Author: Rachel Sussman; Hans Ulrich Obrist; Carl Zimmer; Christina Louise Costello; Michael Paukner Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014. ©2014 ISBN/ISSN: 9780226057507 022605750X OCLC:865452381

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The oldest living things in the world

Author:	Rachel Sussman; Hans Ulrich Obrist; Carl Zimmer; Christina Louise Costello; Michael Paukner
Publisher:	Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014. ©2014
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Database:	WorldCat
Summary:	"Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older...Alongside the photographs, Sussman relays sometimes harrowing tales of her global adventures tracking down her subjects and shares insights from the scientists who research them."--Publisher's description.
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Subjects	Longevity. Longevity in art. Organisms -- Pictorial works. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Pictorial works
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Rachel Sussman; Hans Ulrich Obrist; Carl Zimmer; Christina Louise Costello; Michael Paukner Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780226057507 022605750X
OCLC Number:	865452381
Notes:	Includes indexes
Description:	xxxiii, 269 pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 30 cm
Contents:	The world as we know it -- The future is invented with fragments from the past / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- How lives become long / Carl Zimmer -- North America. Giant sequoia -- Bristlecone pine -- Creosote bush -- Mojave yucca -- Honey mushroom -- Box huckleberry -- Palmer's oak -- Pando -- The Senator -- Map lichens -- Linnean taxonomy -- South America. Llareta (or yareta) -- Alerce -- Brain coral -- Europe. Fortingall yew -- Chestnut of 100 horses -- Posidonia sea grass -- Olive -- Spruce -- Deep timeline -- Asia. Jōmon sugi -- Sri maha bodhi -- Siberian actinobacteria -- Africa. Baobab -- Underground forests -- Welwitschia -- Australia. Antarctic beech -- Tasmanian lomatia -- Huon pine -- Eucalyptus: New South Wales, Eucalyptus: Western Australia -- Stromatolites -- Antarctica. Antarctic moss -- Growth strategy -- Roads not (yet) taken -- Researchers, guides, guests, and "a little way through."
Responsibility:	Rachel Sussman ; with essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Carl Zimmer ; photography editor, Christina Louise Costello ; infographics, Michael Paukner.

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