The Remarkable Baobab - Thomas Pakenham

The Remarkable Baobab

by Thomas Pakenham

Jonathan Ball R169,95

Lyric prose and astonishing photographs combine to produce a remarkable (that word again) book. Tom Pakenham is primarily an historian (The Struggle for Africa) whose delightful Meetings with Remarkable Trees and Remarkable Trees of the World reveal another side.

In this smaller-format work he concentrates on the African, Australian and Caribbean baobabs. He poses the question: "Why are there six species of baobab in Madagascar and only two in the rest of the world, 10 000 miles apart in Africa and Australia?"