Meetings with Remarkable Trees
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (973 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375752684 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tree Lovers, this Book is for You While I didn't realize the trees shown in this beautiful book were all European it was fun to read about the American imports - progeny of our great trees growing happily and differently, I might add.. "A Very Beautiful Book on British Trees" according to Privacy, Please. If you are a fan of trees or simply like to look at pictures of wonderful old specimens and imagine fairies, gnomes, soldiers from another era, Robin Hood or whatever fantasy you like, this book is a great choice. I was expecting it to be a bit of a coffee-table picture book but instead, as other reviewers have also noted, it contains quite a bit of text about the history of each tree covered as well as its location. I love big old tre. "Five Stars" according to UKI. Love this book!!!! It is as remarkable as the trees. I gifted it to my daughter as she is a verifiable tree hugger. I couldn't have gotten her a more appropriate gift. Getting one for myself next as when I looked through the book I knew that the experience of seeing these trees is one that I can only have vicariously, but one I will treasure for always. What majesty!
In Meetings with Remarkable Trees Pakenham assembles a beautifully photographed gallery of 60-odd trees of Scotland, England, and Ireland, and magnificent trees they are. . Pakenham helpfully includes a map showing the locations of his scattered dramatis personae; you could make a fine tour retracing his steps and having a look for yourself. Thomas Pakenham, a distinguished historian of Africa, takes a new tack by writing an old-fashioned kind of book: a catalog of trees of the British Isles. The last such book was published in 1826. One is a 600-year-old king oak that looms large over Charleville, Ireland; another is the yew tree that Wordsworth called the "pride of Lorton's vale"; still another is a sequoia brought from the United States
This is a lovingly researched book, beautifully illustrated with colour photographs, engravings and maps - a moving testimonial to the Earth's largest and oldest living structures.. The arrangement owed little to conventional botany. From the ancient native trees, many of which are huge and immeasurably old, to the exotic newcomers from Europe, the East and North America, MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE TREES captures the history and beauty of these entrancing living structures. With this astonishing collection of tree portraits, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. Common to all these trees is their power to inspire awe and wonder. The sixty trees were grouped according to their own strong personalities: Natives, Travellers, Shrines, Fantasies and Survivors. Thomas Pakenham's bestselling book of tree portraits
He lives in County Westmeath, Ireland and is chairman of the Irish Tree Society. Thomas Pakenham is the author of the critically acclaimed THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA which won the W.H. He plants trees both for profit and ornament. He is also the author of THE BOER WAR, THE MOUNTAINS OF RASSELAS and THE YEAR OF LIBERTY. . Smith Award and the Alan Paton Award