MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE TREES BY THOMAS PAKENHAM: HARDCOVER, FULLY INTACT DUST JACKET, 191 PAGES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES. Thomas Pakenham's beautifully illustrated, bestselling book of tree portraits.With this astonishing collection, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owes little to conventional botany.
AFRICAN TREES: A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION BY CHARLES BRYANT & BRITA LOMBA: SOFTCOVER, 176 PAGES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES. An art book containing breathtaking images of some of the most extraordinary and beautiful indigenous trees in Southern and East Africa. Through photographs and text it conveys the magic of African trees and their vital interrelationship with the continent's people, animals, birds and insects. Charles Bryant and Brita Lomba share a passion for trees, photography and Africa. They live in Cape Town and are avid collectors of fine art photography.
REMARKABLE TREES OF THE WORLD: HARDCOVER, FULLY INTACT DUST JACKET, 192 PAGES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES. Thomas Pakenham embarks on a five-year odyssey to most of the temperate and tropical regions of the world to photograph sixty trees of remarkable personality and presence: Dwarfs, Giants, Monuments, and Aliens; the lovingly tended midgets of Japan; the enormous strangler from India; and the 4,700-year "Old Methusalehs." American readers will be fascinated by Pakenham's first examination of North American trees, including the towering Redwoods of Sequoia and Yosemite, the gaunt Joshua Trees of Death Valley and the Bristlecone pines discovered in California's White Mountains.
THE MOUNTAINS OF A RASSELAS BY THOMAS PAKENHAM: HARDCOVER, FULLY INTACT DUST JACKET, 175 PAGES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES. Rasselas is a tale of the royal princes of Abyssinia, who were condemned to live on the prison-mountain of Wehni until they died or the order of succession called them to the throne. How much of this was truth and how much legend? The author of Meetings with Remarkable Trees, Thomas Pakenham traveled to Ethiopia to find out.
