Resultados para: thomas pakenham

Citing the baobab tree as perhaps the oldest life form on the planet today, a natural and cultural study relates numerous superstitions and myths that have been attributed to the baobab while documenting its uses throughout history as food, medicine,...

Profiles significant tree varieties on four continents, pairing lavish photography with passionate descriptions of Japanese midgets, India stranglers, American redwoods, and others, in a volume that also discusses the dangers posed to many trees....

Sesenta árboles únicos y excepcionales elegidos por su acentuada personalidad o su originalidad. Árboles clasificados en Gigantes y Enanos, Matusalenes, Santuarios, Sueños, Amantes y Bailarines, Espectros y Árboles en peligro. Obra indispensable para...

In the first book of British tree portraits since Jacob Strutt´s Sylvia Britannica of 1826, Thomas Pakenham has selected sixty trees remarkables in age, size, shape and history. In na arrangement that owes little to conventional botany, Pakenham´s...

The spirit of nineteenth-century naturalistic exploration lives in British historian Thomas Pakenham, who has spent the last decade chronicling the lives of the world´s most dramatic trees, many of which are in danger of destruction. After the...

Arboles Excepcionales Del Mundo