| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780393325294 | | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company | | Publish Date: 9/1/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 33841231 | | Item#: BLND93 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 11.5H x 9.5L x 0.75T | | Pages: 192 |
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| | | "A stunning volume" (Time) and the most magnificent book on the world's trees published in years. THE PUBLICATION OF Remarkable Trees of the World took American audiences by storm. Now in a handsome paperback volume with flaps, Thomas Pakenham embarks on a five-year odyssey to most of the temperate and tropical regions of the world to photograph sixty trees of remarkable personality and presence: Dwarfs, Giants, Monuments, and Aliens; the lovingly tended midgets of Japan; the enormous strangler from India; and the 4,700-year "Old Methusalehs." American readers will be fascinated by Pakenham's first examination of North American trees, including the towering Redwoods of Sequoia and Yosemite, the gaunt Joshua Trees of Death Valley and the Bristlecone pines discovered in California's White Mountains. Remarkable Trees of the World is a lavish work that will be treasured for generations by all those who marvel at nature.
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Thomas Pakenham, author of MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE TREES, follow up with this portrait of trees he categorizes as Giants, Dwarfs, Methusalahs, Dreams, and Trees in Peril--all of them magnificently photographed.
| PraiseLiterary Review
"Because so many of these trees are truly remarkable, I would have liked a little more serious information about them, but Pakenham makes it clear [that] his stated aim...was to find trees with character, of the kind that make you want to cry 'Wow' in their presence. The Wow factor is present on almost every page. Feast your eyes." - Miranda Seymour September 2002New York Times
"The specimens photographed here are surpassingly bizarre and varied, with text that provides accompanying legends and history....[An] astonishing collection." - Janet Maslin 12/12/2002 |
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