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Title: Remarkable Trees of the World by Thomas Pakenham ISBN: 0-393-04911-6 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 30 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Photography, Great Text, Great Subject Matter.
Comment: If you are trying to give a gift to someone who you really like, this book would be ideal - It's that good.
Briefly, this is a book of photographs of 60 trees scattered throughout the world that appeal to the author in some way. The photos are excellent and if you have ever tried to photograph a tree you will appreciate the thought and hard work that went into this book. The author includes photos of the biggest, the oldest, the holiest, and the oddest trees in the world. Ruminating about why he chose these particular trees is as fun as viewing the photos and text. Each photo is accompanied by well-written text that fleshes out the photos with historical, biological, or cultural information regarding each tree and its setting.
I found myself lost in time and space as I read this book and looked at the trees - which is probably what the author intended and why he calls these trees "remarkable".
The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is because I read it after I had read Pakenham's first book, "Meetings With Remarkable Trees", which is even richer and better. I'm no tree-hugger but after reading these books I could be tempted.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Most Magnificent Book - Spectacular Photographs!
Comment: Joyce Kilmer wrote, "I think that I shall never see, A poem lovely as a tree." Here in this magnificent publication, "Remarkable Trees Of The World," Thomas Pakenham has given us a book that is, indeed, a poem worthy of trees, gifts to Earth from God. Enchanting, majestic, some almost mystical, these trees are truly remarkable, as the title suggests. Pakenham, on a five-year odyssey to most of the world's tropical and temperate regions, photographed and wrote about sixty of his most notable discoveries. The results are a delight - the photographs spectacular. Selected for their age, size, form and historical interest, some of the author's choices include, Japan's bonsai, Sequoia's redwoods, Death Valley's Joshua Trees, banyons, a 4700-year-old Methuselah, a 4600-year-old bristlecone pine and a tiny tree in Morocco with six goats perched in the branches, plus sacred trees, haunted trees and once-inhabited trees.
The well written text and anecdotes provides legends and history. Pakenham has taken his love for trees and communicated his feelings, in beautiful living color, for all of us to enjoy. This book makes a wonderful gift, especially for nature lovers. I recently gave it to a friend as a birthday present and was thrilled at how well it was received.
JANA
Rating: 5
Summary: An especially recommended visual experience
Comment: In Remarkable Trees Of The World, Thomas Pakenham informatively combines stunning, full-color photography with intriguing tales of famous and ancient trees worldwide. Each individual anecdote tells a simple yet amazing story of great, arboreal giants that live for so long as to be seemingly be immortal - save to the hungry depredations of humanity, that is. Attention engaging and "reader friendly", Remarkable Trees Of The World is an especially recommended visual experience for nature lovers -- and an especially suitable selection for school and community library Memorial Fund acquisition lists.
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Title: Meetings with Remarkable Trees by Thomas Pakenham ISBN: 0375752684 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 10 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: America's Famous and Historic Trees: From George Washington's Tulip Poplar to Elvis Presley's Pin Oak by Jeffrey G. Meyer, Sharon Linnea ISBN: 0618068910 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 20 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Fantastic Trees by Edwin A. Menninger, James E. Eckenwalder ISBN: 0881923249 Publisher: Timber Press Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Polar Bear Waltz and Other Moments of Epic Silliness: Comic Classics from Outside Magazine's "Parting Shots" (Outside Books) by Outside Magazine ISBN: 0393323986 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 04 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Secrets of Wildflowers: A Delightful Feast of Little-Known Facts, Folklore, and History by Jack Sanders ISBN: 1585746681 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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