BOOK - Around the world in 80 trees

Passionate about trees, and building on the international success of Meetings with Remarkable Trees, Thomas Pakenham tracks, photographs and identifies the most beautiful species of the plant kingdom, in the four corners of the planet. Through rich texts and magnificent photographs swarm information, legends, anecdotes and myths, depicting these 80 unusual trees, living witnesses of our own history for several centuries, even several millennia. The book presents us with fervor extraordinary specimens, real characters of the vegetable kingdom who make up a gallery of unforgettable portraits in which parade the "General Sherman" of Sierra Nevada, California - the largest tree, even the largest living being, in the world -, the cypress of Tule, in Mexico, which displays a waist circumference of 58 meters, but also the "Old Methuselah", a pine of more than 4000 years, or the legendary baobabs of Africa and the most old sacred trees of Japan.