Thomas Pakenham

The Company of Trees (eBook, ePUB)

A Year in a Lifetime's Quest

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'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 Company of Trees he recounts his personal quest to establish a large arboretum on the family estate, Tullynally in Ireland; his forays to other tree-filled parks and plantations; his often hazardous seed-hunting expeditions; and his efforts to preserve magnificent old trees and historic woodlands.

Whether writing about the terrible storms breaking the backs of hundred-year-old trees or a fire in the peat bog on Tullynally which threatens to spread to the main commercial spruce-woods, his fear of climate change and disease, or the sturdy young saplings giving him hope for the future, his book is never less than enthralling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780297866251
• Artikelnr.: 43616089

Autorenporträt

Thomas Pakenham is the author of the critically acclaimed The Scramble for Africa, which won the W. H. Smith Award and the Alan Paton Award. He is also the author of The Boer War, The Mountains of Rasselas, and The Company of Trees, among many other books. He lives in Ireland.