Resultados para: thomas-pakenham

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....

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,...

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