Meetings with remarkable trees

Author(s)

• Pakenham, Thomas

Bibliographic Information

Meetings with remarkable trees

text and photographs by Thomas Pakenham

Phoenix Illustrated, 1997

• : pbk

Note

This book is paperback edition

Originally published: First publidhed in 1996 by George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

With this astonishing collection of tree portraits,Thomas Pakenham has produced a new kind of tree book.The arrangement owes nothing to conventional botany. The trees are grouped according to their characteristics:Natives,Travellers, Shrines,Fantasies and survivors Roughly half consist of ancient native trees:

Table of Contents

• British and Irish giants
• American giants
• sacred trees
• captives
• relics and ruins
• royals
• hedges and adventures
• Chinoiserie
• towers and temples
• snakes
• poets and painters
• from the East
• liberty trees
• dotards
• mother trees
• champions
• hydras
• homes
• mongrels
• trees of knowledge
• for the hunt
• family seats.

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Details

• NCID: BA4806889X
• ISBN:
  • 0297832557
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 191 p.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 472.33
  • LCC : SD383
  • DC21 : 582.16/0941
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Trees
  • LCSH : Trees -- Pictorial works
  • LCSH : Trees -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Trees -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works