A Traveller's Companion to Dublin (Häftad)
avValerie Pakenham, Thomas Pakenham
ISBN: 9781566564915 - UTGIVEN: 200703This volume splendidly brings to life Dublin's turbulent history, its literary and theatrical character, and its revolutionary ideals and heroes. Illustrations. Maps.[...]
Meetings with Remarkable Trees (Inbunden)
avThomas Pakenham
ISBN: 9780297843504 - UTGIVEN: 200306With this astonishing collection of tree portraits, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owed little to conventional botany. The sixty trees were grouped according to their own strong personalities: Natives, Travellers, Shrines, Fantasies and Survivors. From the ancient [...]
The Scramble for Africa (Storpocket)
avThomas Pakenham
ISBN: 9780349104492 - UTGIVEN: 199211In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by five European powers (and one extraordinary i[...]
The Boer War (Storpocket)
avThomas Pakenham
ISBN: 9780349104669 - UTGIVEN: 199110The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914. Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale history of[...]
Meetings With Remarkable Trees (Pocket)
avThomas Pakenham
ISBN: 9780375752681 - UTGIVEN: 1998-12An 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.[...]
Scramble for Africa... (Häftad)
avThomas Pakenham
ISBN: 9780380719990 - UTGIVEN: 199212White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
Remarkable Trees of the World (Inbunden)
avThomas Pakenham
ISBN: 9780393049114 - UTGIVEN: 200209The 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 lo[...]
The Remarkable Baobab (Inbunden)
avThomas Pakenham
ISBN: 9780393059892 - UTGIVEN: 200410Standing 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[...]
Remarkable Trees of the World (Pocket)
avThomas Pakenham
ISBN: 9780393325294 - UTGIVEN: 200309The 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 lo[...]
The World of Trees (Inbunden)
avHugh Johnson, John Grimshaw, Thomas Pakenham
ISBN: 9780520247567 - UTGIVEN: 201010From well-loved oaks and pines to rare, spectacular species such as the snowbells of Japan, this lavishly illustrated work is an unparalleled guide to more than six hundred of the world's major forest and garden trees. An excellent resource for gardeners, botanists, and general readers alike, "The W[...]
