White Pine, Andrew Vietze
White Pine, Andrew Vietze
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White Pine
American History and the Tree that Made a Nation

Author: Andrew Vietze

Narrator: Gabriel Vaughan

Unabridged: 6 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/28/2021


Synopsis

The history of the ubiquitous pine tree is wrapped up with the history of early America—and in the hands of a gifted storyteller becomes a compelling listen, almost an adventure story.

About Andrew Vietze

Andrew Vietze is a writer and Baxter State Park ranger. He has written more than a dozen books, including Boon Island: A True Story of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Cannibalism, winner of the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Award, and Becoming Teddy Roosevelt: How a Maine Guide Inspired America's 26th President. He spends six months a year as a ranger in the wilds of the Katahdin region.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ben

I liked how the book started, with the relationship of white pine to European settlements in the Americas. The second half of the book took unexpected jumps through history. Overall, it was a generally interesting, though cursory overview. I'd rather it had been a whole book about the role of pine i......more

Goodreads review by Kessiah

To be fair, I did find this book informative and interesting. But I really struggle with nonfiction as it doesn’t hold my attention as well as novels do, so I didn’t get a chance to finish this before returning it; I only got halfway through. Still, I found the information surrounding the white pine......more

Goodreads review by Alex

Not very interesting. The first half is a history of colonial america, mostly focusing on pines, but without any sense of narrative structure or cadence. The second half is bizarre. A chapter on Hancock lumber that reads like marketing copy, for instance. Didn't get a real sense of the purpose of th......more

Goodreads review by Ken

A solid book that outlines the impact of one tree on American history. Although a good book in general, I would have like to have known more about how this tree affected the manufacturing of paper—a topic hinted at but not described in a later chapter, and the ending sort of fizzles out without a cl......more