Remarkable Trees Of The World

About this book

In a handsome paperback volume with flaps, Pakenham embarks on a five-year odyssey to most of the temperate and tropical regions of the world to photograph 60 trees of remarkable personality and presence.

Many of these trees were already famous – champions by girth, height, volume or age – while others had never previously been caught by the camera. Pakenham’s five-year odyssey, sweating it out with a 30 pound Linhof camera and tripod, took him to most of the temperate and many of the tropical regions of the world. Although North American trees dominate Remarkable Trees of the World, Pakenham also trekked to remote regions in Mexico, all over Europe, parts of Asia including Japan, northern and southern Africa, Madagascar, Australia and New Zealand.

Remarkable Trees of the World is a lavish work that will be treasured for generations by all those who marvel at nature.

Contents

Section One: Giants
Section Two: Dwarfs
Section Three: Methusalehs
Section Four: Monuments
Section Five: Aliens

Biography

Thomas Pakenham is the author and photographer of the bestselling , and author of the critically acclaimed Scramble for Africa, which won the W.H.Smith award and the Alan Paton Award.