Thomas Pakenham
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The Scramble for Africa
The Scramble for Africa astonished everyone. In 1880 most of the continent was ruled by Africans, and barely explored. By 1902, five European Powers (and…
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The Boer War
The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, `no end of a lesson'. The public expected it…
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The Tree Hunters
For centuries, English country gentlemen had collected exotic pictures for their saloons and rare books for their libraries. By the end of the seventeenth century,…
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The Company of Trees
'The master. Puts all other modern tree-writers in the shade' John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland Thomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion of trees. In The…
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Meetings With Remarkable Trees
Thomas Pakenham's beautifully illustrated, bestselling book of tree portraits. With this astonishing collection, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owes…