Thomas Pakenham

With this astonishing collection of tree portraits,Thomas Pakenham has produced a new kind of tree book.The arrangement owes nothing to conventional botany. The trees are grouped according to their characteristics:Natives,Travellers, Shrines,Fantasies and survivors Roughly half consist of ancient native trees:

The Scramble for Africa is a comprehensive popular history of the Scramble for Africa written by Thomas Pakenham.