Meetings with Remarkable TreesThomas Pakenham's bestselling book of tree portraits. With this astonishing collection of tree portraits, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owed little to conventional botany. The sixty trees were grouped according to their own strong personalities: Natives, Travellers, Shrines, Fantasies and Survivors. From the ancient native trees, many of which are huge and immeasurably old, to the exotic newcomers from Europe, the East and North America, MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE TREES captures the history and beauty of these entrancing living structures. Common to all these trees is their power to inspire awe and wonder. This is a lovingly researched book, beautifully illustrated with colour photographs, engravings and maps - a moving testimonial to the Earth's largest and oldest living structures. |
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OUT OF EUROPE AND OVERHEAD UP GREW CEDAR , AND PINE , AND FIR , AND BRANCHING PALM ... Milton's description of the exotic trees surrounding the Garden of Eden in Paradise Lost Book IV . PREVIOUS PAGE Cedar of Lebanon at Nymans RIGHT The ...
OUT OF EUROPE AND OVERHEAD UP GREW CEDAR , AND PINE , AND FIR , AND BRANCHING PALM ... Milton's description of the exotic trees surrounding the Garden of Eden in Paradise Lost Book IV . PREVIOUS PAGE Cedar of Lebanon at Nymans RIGHT The ...
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... Cedars of Lebanon in La Terre Sainte ( Paris , 1646 ) . DERE COLLEG T HOOKER'S CHOICE AT KEW THERE ARE 600. RIGHT The Goodwood Cedar of Lebanon planted in 1761 ON THIS ESTATE FOUND TWO YOUNG YEWS GROWING ON THE. 62. TRAVELLERS.
... Cedars of Lebanon in La Terre Sainte ( Paris , 1646 ) . DERE COLLEG T HOOKER'S CHOICE AT KEW THERE ARE 600. RIGHT The Goodwood Cedar of Lebanon planted in 1761 ON THIS ESTATE FOUND TWO YOUNG YEWS GROWING ON THE. 62. TRAVELLERS.
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STORM - BATTERED CEDARS OF LEBANON NO LATER PASSION FOR EXOTIC TREES , NOT EVEN THE VICTORIANS ' LUST FOR WELLINGTONIAS AND MONKEY PUZZLES , QUITE EQUALLED THE FRISSON CREATED BY THE CEDAR OF LEBANON . Its origins were at first ...
STORM - BATTERED CEDARS OF LEBANON NO LATER PASSION FOR EXOTIC TREES , NOT EVEN THE VICTORIANS ' LUST FOR WELLINGTONIAS AND MONKEY PUZZLES , QUITE EQUALLED THE FRISSON CREATED BY THE CEDAR OF LEBANON . Its origins were at first ...
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