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Meetings with Remarkable Trees
Thomas Packenham, Meetings with Remarkable Trees - Foxed Pod Episode 9
  • ISBN: 9781474601474
  • Pages: 192
  • Illustrations: Colour photographs, engravings and maps
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Binding: Hardback

Meetings with Remarkable Trees

Thomas Packenham
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With this collection, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owes little to conventional botany. The sixty trees are 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.



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