THE REMARKABLE BAOBAB BY THOMAS PAKENHAM

"THE REMARKABLE BAOBAB" BY THOMAS PAKENHAM. HARDCOVER, FULLY INTACT DUST JACKET, 143 PAGES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES.

Standing tall on the sunburned plains of Africa and Australia, baobabs may be the oldest life forms on the planet. Many of the specimens still standing today have been around for well over two thousand years. Tremendous in size and bizarre in appearance, they have provided food, medicine, and places of refuge and worship to countless peoples, even serving as prisons and tombs on occasion. Long before European explorers opened up the African continent, the news of these "gnarled upside-down giants" had astonished the world of science and stoked the imagination of naturalists everywhere.