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The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime's Quest

By Thomas Pakenham

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Hardcover:

9780297866244 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, December 6, 2016, cover price $40.00

The World of Trees

By John Grimshaw (editor), Hugh Johnson and Thomas Pakenham (introduced by)

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9780520247567 | Univ of California Pr, October 18, 2010, cover price $39.95

In Search of Remarkable Trees: On Safari in Southern Africa

The award-winning author of Remarkable Trees of the World and The Scramble for Africa combines the interests of his previous works in a visual account of a safari in southern Africa, during which he studied the natural and cultural histories of rare, ancient, and otherwise extraordinary trees.

By Thomas Pakenham

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9780802716927 | Walker & Co, October 30, 2007, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The award-winning author of Remarkable Trees of the World and The Scramble for Africa combines the interests of his previous works in a visual account of a safari in southern Africa, during which he studied the natural and cultural histories of rare, ancient, and otherwise extraordinary trees.

9780297843801 | Orion Pub Co, August 30, 2007, cover price $42.90 | About this edition: Thomas Pakenham in search of the oldest, most unusual and most impressive trees of Southern Africa.

Arboles Excepcionales Del Mundo / Remarkable Trees of the World

Product Description: The world's most dramatic trees, many of which are in danger of destruction, are lyrically described and beautifully photographed in this homage to their majesty and variety. Owing little to conventional botany, this collection is arranged according to the characters of the trees themselves: giants, dwarfs, Methuselahs, shrines, dreams, lovers, dancers, ghosts, and trees in peril...read more

By Thomas Pakenham

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9788480764940 | 2nd edition edition (Blume, April 1, 2005), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The world's most dramatic trees, many of which are in danger of destruction, are lyrically described and beautifully photographed in this homage to their majesty and variety.

Mythic Woods: The World's Most Remarkable Forests

Product Description: These magnificent and evocative color photos reveal why forests have been a source of inspiration to humankind throughout the ages. The bestselling author of Meeting with Remarkable Trees has chosen 15 "mythic woods," from the famous Sherwood Forest (so unlike its legendary image) to the little-known Valley of the Giants in Tasmania, home to some of the world's tallest trees...read more

By Thomas Pakenham (foreword by) and Jonathan Roberts

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9780297843528 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, March 28, 2005, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: These magnificent and evocative color photos reveal why forests have been a source of inspiration to humankind throughout the ages.

The Remarkable Baobab

Citing the baobab tree as perhaps the oldest life form on the planet today, a natural and cultural study relates numerous superstitions and myths that have been attributed to the baobab while documenting its uses throughout history as food, medicine, shelter, a site of worship, prisons, and tombs. 15,000 first printing.

By Thomas Pakenham

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9780393059892 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 25, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A natural and cultural study that documents the baobab's uses throughout history as food, medicine, shelter, a site of worship, prisons, and tombs; and includes superstitions and myths associated with it.

Meetings With Remarkable Trees

A new portable hardback format of Thomas Pakenham's bestselling book of tree portraits.

By Thomas Pakenham

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9780679456926 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1997, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: An 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.

9780297832553 | Orion Pub Co, October 28, 1996, cover price $53.45 | About this edition: This collection of tree portraits is designed as a testimonial to the Earth's oldest living organisms.

Paperback:

9780297843504 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, June 12, 2003), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A new portable hardback format of Thomas Pakenham's bestselling book of tree portraits.

9780375752681 | Random House Inc, December 1, 1998, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Offers a survey of sixty distinctive, outstanding trees from Britain and Ireland, containing descriptions of the trees' characters, color photographs, and maps

Remarkable Trees of the World

Profiles significant tree varieties on four continents, pairing lavish photography with passionate descriptions of Japanese midgets, India stranglers, American redwoods, and others, in a volume that also discusses the dangers posed to many trees. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

By Thomas Pakenham

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9780297843498 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, June 12, 2003), cover price $22.90 | About this edition: From North and South America to Europe, from Asia, South Africa and Madagascar to Australia and New Zealand, this book presents us with trees of personality and presence, such as, Dwarfs, Giants, Monuments, and Aliens - the lovingly tended midgets of Japan; the massive 'General Sherman' of Sierra Nevada; the Mexican Tule Bald Cypress; and more.

9780393049114 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 2002, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Profiles significant tree varieties on four continents, including Japanese midgets, India stranglers, and American redwoods in a volume that also discusses the dangers posed to many trees.

Paperback:

9780393325294 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 2003), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Profiles significant tree varieties on four continents, including Japanese midgets, India stranglers, and American redwoods, in a volume that also discusses the dangers posed to many trees.

A Traveller's Companion to Dublin

By Thomas Pakenham (editor) and Valerie Pakenham (editor)

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9781566564915 | Interlink Pub Group Inc, April 1, 2003, cover price $16.95

The Big House in Ireland

Product Description: For nearly 400 years, the big country house has dominated the Irish landscape and imagination. Two best-selling authors follow the splendor and the decline of these estates, with sumptuous artwork and photographs; information on the colorful figures involved in constructing these homes; and illuminating writings from such notables as Jonathan Swift...read more

By Thomas Pakenham (photographer) and Valerie Pakenham

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9780304354221, titled "Big House in Ireland" | Cassell, March 1, 2001, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: ".

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9781841881591 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, October 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: For nearly 400 years, the big country house has dominated the Irish landscape and imagination.

The Mountains of Rasselas: An Ethiopian Adventure

By Thomas Pakenbam and Thomas Pakenham

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9781841880051 | Seven Dials, September 1, 1999, cover price $24.95

Year of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798

An abridged, illustrated edition of the classic history of the 1798 Irish rebellion describes the tragic consequences of the rebellion, its legacy of violence, and its implications for the subsequent history of British-Irish relations. 10,000 first printing. BOMC & History. (view table of contents)

By Toby Buchan and Thomas Pakenham

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9780812930887 | Abridged edition (Times Books, November 1, 1998), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Describes the tragic consequences of the 1798 Irish rebellion, its legacy of violence, and its implications for the subsequent history of British-Irish relations

The Boer War

More than two hundred illustrations, photographs, and maps combine with an abridged edition of the author's critically acclaimed The Boer War to chronicle the events, personalities, causes, and consequences of the war. History Bk Club.

By Thomas Pakenham

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9780679430476 | Ill edition (Random House Inc, September 1, 1994), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Uses first-hand accounts to reconstruct Britain's last great imperial war which proved to be one of the costliest, deadliest, and most humiliating wars in British history

9780394427423 | Random House Inc, October 1, 1979, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Uses firsthand accounts to reconstruct Britain's last great imperial war which proved to be one of the costliest, deadliest, and most humiliating wars in British history

Paperback:

9780380720019 | Reprint edition (Perennial, December 1, 1992), cover price $21.95

The Year of Liberty: The History of the Great Irish Rebellion of 1798

By Thomas Pakenham

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9780679748021 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, September 1, 1993), cover price $12.00

The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912

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By Thomas Pakenham

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9780380719990 | Reprint edition (Perennial, December 1, 1992), cover price $23.99

Boer War B

Product Description: The 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...read more

By Thomas Pakenham

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9780747409762 | Gardners Books, December 1, 1991, cover price $14.80 | About this edition: The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'.

The Scramble for Africa: 1876-1912

An account of the conquest of Africa by five European powers describes the explorers, politicians, merchants, military men, and others who subjugated Africa through commerce, Christianity, and colonialism

By Thomas Pakenham

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9780394515762 | Random House Inc, November 1, 1991, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: An account of the conquest of Africa by five European powers describes the explorers, politicians, merchants, military men, and others who subjugated Africa through commerce, Christianity, and colonialism

Dublin: A Travellers' Companion

Uses selections from diaries, letters, memoirs, histories, and fiction to depict life in Dublin during various periods in its history

By Thomas Pakenham and Valerie Pakenham

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9780689707414, titled "Dublin: A Travellers' Companion" | Atheneum, September 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Uses selections from diaries, letters, memoirs, histories, and fiction to depict life in Dublin during various periods in its history

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