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The Remarkable Baobab by Pakenham
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393059898
ISBN-13
9780393059892
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30778888
Product Key Features
Book Title
Remarkable Baobab
Number of Pages
142 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Plants / Trees, Biblical Studies / General
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Religion
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
7.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-021934
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
582.16
Synopsis
Standing tall on the sunburned plains of Africa and Australia, baobabs may be the oldest life forms on the planet. Many of the specimens still standing today have been around for well over two thousand years. Tremendous in size and bizarre in appearance, they have provided food, medicine, and places of refuge and worship to countless peoples, even serving as prisons and tombs on occasion. Long before European explorers opened up the African continent, the news of these "gnarled upside-down giants" had astonished the world of science and stoked the imagination of naturalists everywhere. Thomas Pakenham chronicles his personal encounters with the baobabs of Africa, Australia, Madagascar, and America and shares the countless superstitions and myths, as well as the often-strange history, that surround these enigmatic trees. With 60 color photos and 144 pages with color throughout, The Remarkable Baobab will be a great, and reasonably priced, gift book for the Christmas season., From the best-selling author of Remarkable Trees of the World, a celebration of the most extraordinary tree of them all., Acclaimed historian Thomas Pakenham-who has dramatized in photographs and words the sheer majesty of trees throughout the world-now trains his lens on the most mysterious of trees, the baobab, with spectacular results. His search for the world's most striking baobabs has led him over the last eight years on a trail from sub-Saharan Africa to Madagascar and Australia, the Caribbean, and the United States. Here, in The Remarkable Baobab, Pakenham records his personal encounters with these mysterious giants, tracing their mythologies, their natural grandeur, and their origins, as well as their chances of survival in an uncertain environment. As Pakenham notes, the baobab may indeed be one of the oldest life forms on the planet, and many of the specimens still standing today have been alive for well over a thousand years. Standing tall on the savannahs of Africa and the sunburned plains of Australia, they are tremendous in size and have provided food, medicine, and places of refuge and worship to many, even serving as prisons, tombs, and ossuaries on occasion. Over the last one thousand years they have gained mythical status among many peoples, due in no small part to their appearance-without leaves, the branches of the trees look like roots growing into the sky. The Remarkable Baobab also includes a special section devoted to two famous baobabs in North America-one which is now over twenty feet in girth and is planted on a private Florida estate, the other a breathtaking specimen on the campus of the University of Arizona that was brought to the United States by smugglers. These stories are but two examples provided by Thomas Pakenham in The Remarkable Baobab, a book that is as visually bewitching as the baobab itself. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
SD383.P367 2002
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