The Remarkable Baobab
$51.08
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2004
Summary
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 gi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393059892 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0393059898 |
| Author: | Thomas Pakenham |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 648g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 191mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Thomas Pakenham
Thomas Pakenham’s Meetings with Remarkable Trees received international acclaim. His other books include Remarkable Trees of the World, The Boer War and The Scramble for Africa, which won the Alan Paton Award. He lives in London.
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