The Remarkable Baobab

Pakenham, Thomas, 1933-

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Langue : anglais

Edité par W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2004, 2004

0393059898 / 9780393059892

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142 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm OCLC 56844554 ISBN: 9780393059892, 0393059898 ;LC QK495.B7 P35 2004 ; Dewey 583.68 ; dark blue-grey boards in color photographic dustjacket ; article, :Is that really a tree?, from Awake! May 2008, laid-in ; 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. ; FINE/FINE.…

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Titre
The Remarkable Baobab
Auteur
Pakenham, Thomas, 1933-
Éditeur
W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2004
Année de publication
2004
État de l'article
Fine
Jaquette
Fine
Type de livre
Book
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0393059898
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780393059892

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