Remarkable Trees Of The Wld Cl

by Pakenham,Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780393049114
• ISBN10: 0393049116
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The publication of Remarkable Trees of the World took American audiences by storm. 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. Many of these trees were already famous'”champions by girth, height, volume or age'”while others had never previously been caught by the camera. Pakenham's five-year odyssey, sweating it out with a 30 pound Linhof camera and tripod, took him to most of the temperate and many of the tropical regions of the world. Although North American trees dominate this book, Pakenham also trekked to remote regions in Mexico, all over Europe, parts of Asia including Japan, northern and southern Africa, Madagascar, Australia and New Zealand. Remarkable Trees of the World is a lavish work that will be treasured for generations by all those who marvel at nature.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 6
Giants
Gods
Last of the Maori Gods	p. 14
The Hyena and the Baobabs	p. 19
Goddesses
Saving the Great Mother Goddess	p. 26
Any Fool Can Climb a Gum Tree	p. 30
Redwoods with Heads in the Clouds	p. 32
Nectar at the House of Representatives	p. 36
The Bachelor and the Three Graces	p. 39
Grizzlies
The Cedars They Turned into Totems	p. 42
The Tree That Looks Like a Troll	p. 44
Sherman v. Grant in the Sierras	p. 47
At the Feet of the Emperor	p. 51
Dwarfs
For Fear of Little Men
No Love Lost Between the Brothers	p. 57
Bury Me in a Tomb of Granite	p. 58
The Golden Cup of Joshua Tree Park	p. 61
The Beachcomber of Monterey	p. 62
In Bondage
Tie up My Feet, Darling, and I'll Live for Ever	p. 68
Methuselahs
The Living and the Dead
The Old Man and the Mountain	p. 74
The Kvilleken and the Green Man	p. 78
Parsifal and the Holy Grail	p. 81
They Say You Knew Julius Caesar	p. 82
Justice under the Oak	p. 84
Did the Dragon Grow a New Head?	p. 86
Shrines
First a Staff, Then a Leaning Tower	p. 90
How They Saved the Chapel Oak	p. 92
The Tree from the Tree Where Buddha Sat	p. 94
The Tree of the Great Healer	p. 98
Tulips Too High for the Bees	p. 100
The Tree with Nine Wives	p. 102
Bowing Politely to the Camphor Trees	p. 105
Homage to a Tree Like Proteus	p. 108
The Other Tree under Which Buddha Sat	p. 110
Dreams
Prisoners
The Men They Locked into Trees	p. 116
Aliens
The Pink Beanstalks of Rotorua	p. 120
A Line in Defence of the Governor	p. 122
St Anthony's American Bouquet	p. 125
A Fossil Aussie for Bussaco?	p. 126
Knees-up at Santorso	p. 128
Lovers and Dancers
Kiss me, I'm a Baobab	p. 132
When the Band Played in the Tree	p. 135
Snakes and Ladders
The Tree that Became a Village	p. 138
The 800 Corkscrews of Verzy	p. 140
Where Angels Didn't Fear to Tread	p. 142
Trust Me, I'm a Python	p. 144
Going down, not Coming up	p. 146
Two Serpents in the Garden	p. 148
Ghosts
Failing David Douglas	p. 154
When Moses Followed Joshua	p. 158
The Girl Who Lay under the Banyans	p. 161
A Tomb with a View	p. 162
Trees in Peril
Do the Loggers Always Win?
Ashes to Ashes	p. 168
The Vanishing Totara	p. 170
The Man Who Fought with Giants	p. 172
Lay My Bones at Nolan Creek	p. 174
Ten Green Bottles
Spirits of the Forest	p. 178
The Elephant with Only One Foot	p. 180
Sunset for the Baobabs of Morondava	p. 182
Gazetteer	p. 186
Bibliography	p. 188
Illustration credits	p. 188
Index	p. 189
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