Meetings With Remarkable Trees

by PAKENHAM, THOMAS

• ISBN13: 9780375752681
• ISBN10: 0375752684
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-10
• Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE

Summary

An award-winning historian and renowned arborist offers a profusely illustrated survey of sixty distinctive, outstanding trees from Britain and Ireland, containing literate, colorful descriptions of the trees' characters, color photographs, and maps. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Author Biography

Thomas Pakenham's Meetings with Remarkable Trees received international acclaim. His other books include Remarkable Trees of the World, The Boer War, and The Scramble for Africa, which won the Alan Paton Award. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(10)
NATIVES
British & Irish Giants	16	(14)
Incognito at Fredville	19	(2)
A Tree Like a Drawing by Thurber	21	(1)
Hoping for Immortality	22	(3)
The Squire's Walking Stick	25	(2)
The King Oak of King's County	27	(1)
Beeches on Borrowed Time	28	(2)
In Arcadia	30	(10)
Return of the Natives	32	(3)
The Pioneer of Rothiemurchus	35	(1)
Very Reverend Vegetables at Burnham	36	(4)
TRAVELLERS
Out of Europe	40	(8)
Dunkeld's Mother of Millions	42	(3)
Growing a New Head at Strone	45	(1)
The Best and the Worst of Limes	46	(2)
American Giants	48	(14)
Ossian's Douglas Fir	50	(2)
The Redwoods of Whitefield	52	(3)
Wellingtonias: New Giants for Old	55	(2)
Money-makers of Scone	57	(1)
The Tree That Longs to Get Away From Home	58	(3)
Tulips a Hundred Feet High	61	(1)
From The East	62	(12)
Storm-battered Cedars of Lebanon	64	(2)
Pick a Strawberry	66	(3)
Xerxes' Plane at Emmanuel	69	(2)
Hooker's Choice at Kew	71	(1)
Maples as Pink as a Shrimp	72	(2)
Mysterious Mothers	74	(6)
Solemn and Upright at Florence Court	77	(1)
Bastards are Best at Bryanston	78	(2)
Chinoiserie	80	(8)
Going Downhill for 60 Million Years	83	(1)
To Laugh or to Cry at Rowallane	84	(3)
Egrets or Flamingos?	87	(1)
A Whiff of the Jungle	88	(8)
Paradise Regained at Heligan	90	(3)
Tree Ferns as Blue as the Sea	93	(3)
SHRINES
Sacred Trees	96	(6)
Gloom or Bloom at Much Marcle	99	(1)
Among the Angels at Muckross	100	(2)
Poets' Trees	102	(8)
Wordsworth's Yews at Lorton and Borrowdale	105	(1)
The Tree That Did Not Go to Dunsinane	106	(2)
Commemorating a War Hero	108	(2)
Trees of Liberty	110	(8)
Martyrdom at Tolpuddle	112	(3)
The Arch-rebel's Oak	115	(3)
FANTASIES
Gateways & Homes	118	(12)
The Cave at Crowhurst	121	(2)
Tea in a Tree at Pitchford	123	(1)
Under the Trees at Welbeck	124	(5)
Pillars of St Edward's	129	(1)
Walls, Walks & Puzzles	130	(12)
The Hedge That Upstaged Emma Thompson	132	(3)
Noblesse Oblige at Meikleour	135	(1)
An Avenue of Puzzles at Bicton	136	(2)
Back from the Dead at Murthly	138	(3)
New Zealand to the Rescue	141	(1)
Towers & a Tomb	142	(6)
Plotting Darnley's Murder	145	(1)
Giants That Smell of Boot Polish	146	(2)
Weepers & Creepers	148	(14)
Anti-clockwise at Kew	151	(1)
Willow Pattern at Hyde Park	152	(3)
Multiplying Mourners at Knap Hill	155	(1)
Rootery at Wakehurst	156	(6)
SURVIVORS
Relics & Ruins	162	(18)
Hunting Herne's Oaks at Windsor	164	(4)
Evelyn's Great Chestnut'	168	(2)
The Prisoners of Crom	170	(3)
A Refuge by the Runway	173	(1)
A Family Pet at Bowthorpe	174	(2)
Praying for Gilbert White's Yew	176	(3)
Death at Chatsworth	179	(1)
The Newcomer	180	(6)
The Old Tree from Mo-Tao-Chi	182	(4)
Gazetteer	186	(2)
Bibliography & Illustrations	188	(1)
Index	189