Remarkable Trees of South Africa
Author: Neels Esterhuyse
Publisher: Spotlight Poets
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gives a glimpse into the world of trees from the biggest, tallest and oldest in South Africa
Author: Neels Esterhuyse
Publisher: Spotlight Poets
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gives a glimpse into the world of trees from the biggest, tallest and oldest in South Africa
Author: Thomas Pakenham
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thomas Pakenham in search of the oldest, most unusual and most impressive trees of Southern Africa.
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0393049116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A landmark volume celebrating the most remarkable trees on the planet, Pakenham takes readers on a voyage across four continents and introduces them to arbors of all shapes and sizes--dwarfs, giants, aliens, and monuments. Full-color photos.
Author: Thomas Pakenham
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781868422876
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The famed author of "The Boer War "and "Remarkable Trees of the World "presents some of the oldest, most unusual, and most impressive trees on the planet as he travels across Southern Africa and Madagascar. Thomas Pakenham, no stranger to Africa with his award-winning books "The Boer War "and "The Scramble for Africa," nor to remarkable trees with his bestselling "Remarkable Trees of the World," combines his two interests on safari in Southern Africa. His particular quarry is the rare, the giant, the very old, the extraordinary, or the simply beautiful--from a giant baobab and a prickly quiver tree in Namibia to a glorious jacaranda in South Africa and sesame bushes attacked by elephants in Botswana. He uncovers trees written about by the great explorers of the past, or associated with magic, folklore, or ritual. The narrative accompanying each image interweaves the stories of Pakenham's own journey--at some moments scaling trees to escape from enraged wildlife, while at others standing in awe before a particular tree, connected by some primitive, atavistic bond--with those of the trees themselves, imbuing each with personality and presence. The result is a beautifully crafted blend of botany and social history, the product of a brilliant photographer, an original mind, and a superlative writer.
Author: Thomas Pakenham
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780393059892
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Acclaimed historian Thomas Pakenham-who has dramatized in photographs and words the sheer majesty of trees throughout the world-now trains his lens on the most mysterious of trees, the baobab, with spectacular results. His search for the world's most striking baobabs has led him over the last eight years on a trail from sub-Saharan Africa to Madagascar and Australia, the Caribbean, and the United States. Here, in The Remarkable Baobab, Pakenham records his personal encounters with these mysterious giants, tracing their mythologies, their natural grandeur, and their origins, as well as their chances of survival in an uncertain environment. As Pakenham notes, the baobab may indeed be one of the oldest life forms on the planet, and many of the specimens still standing today have been alive for well over a thousand years. Standing tall on the savannahs of Africa and the sunburned plains of Australia, they are tremendous in size and have provided food, medicine, and places of refuge and worship to many, even serving as prisons, tombs, and ossuaries on occasion. Over the last one thousand years they have gained mythical status among many peoples, due in no small part to their appearance-without leaves, the branches of the trees look like roots growing into the sky. The Remarkable Baobab also includes a special section devoted to two famous baobabs in North America-one which is now over twenty feet in girth and is planted on a private Florida estate, the other a breathtaking specimen on the campus of the University of Arizona that was brought to the United States by smugglers. These stories are but two examples provided by Thomas Pakenham in The Remarkable Baobab, a book that is as visually bewitching as the baobab itself. Book jacket.
Author: Thomas Pakenham
Publisher:
Published: 2002-09-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781868421282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thomas Pakenham
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2015-09-10
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0297866257
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'The master. Puts all other modern tree-writers in the shade' John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland Thomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion of trees. In The Company of Trees he recounts his personal quest to establish a large arboretum on the family estate, Tullynally in Ireland; his forays to other tree-filled parks and plantations; his often hazardous seed-hunting expeditions; and his efforts to preserve magnificent old trees and historic woodlands. Whether writing about the terrible storms breaking the backs of hundred-year-old trees or a fire in the peat bog on Tullynally which threatens to spread to the main commercial spruce-woods, his fear of climate change and disease, or the sturdy young saplings giving him hope for the future, his book is never less than enthralling.
Author: Duncan Butchart
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2013-03-13
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1431701882
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A handy, all-in-one photographic field guide to the wildlife of South Africa, covering the region's mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs and trees that are most likely to be seen, with concise accounts and distribution maps for each species. A brief introduction discusses geology, climate, vegetation zones, wildlife hotspots, and tips on watching wildlife. This single volume will find favour with tourists and local enthusiasts alike.
Author: Nini Bairnsfather Cloete
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780986981364
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Allen
Publisher: The Miegunyah Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 0522856691
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Elephantine Boabs dot the Kimberley region of Western Australia; Cattle rub against giant Bottle Trees and Ironbarks in Queensland, and Strangler Figs with 40-metre girths thrive in our northern rainforests. Snow Gums and Shining Gums eke out their lives on our icy mountain tops and prehistoric-looking Bunya Pines, which once looked down on the dinosaurs, grow in a few isolated places in Australia's north-east. Australia's Remarkable Trees explores the extraordinary lives of fifty of Australia's oldest, largest and most unusual trees. Richly illustrated with more than 500 photographs, writer Richard Allen and photographer Kimbal Baker went to the far reaches of Australia-travelling more than 60 000 kilometres-to photograph them and tell their stories. Australia's Remarkable Trees is not just a celebration of Australia's great trees. It also prompts us to look to the future to see what lies in store for them. It is a call to arms to preserve and protect our oldest and most magnificent living things, and the forests and wilderness in which they live