The thrilling adventures of the plant-hunters who created the modern British landscape

White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continentfrom 1876 to 1912

Spretae Carmina Musae - First Series: Songs of Love and Death is an unchanged, high-quality repri...

The bestselling author and historian shares his profound love of trees and for nature, and recoun...

Offers a survey of sixty distinctive, outstanding trees from Britain and Ireland, containing desc...

Standing tall on the sunburned plains of Africa and Australia, baobabs may be the oldest life for...

Original 'Man of the Trees' Thomas Pakenham narrates a story of exploration and discovery in the ...

'Erudite and practical simultaneously' - Gemma Hussey, Irish Independent'Highly entertaining'- Ja...

Thomas Pakenham's beautifully illustrated, bestselling book of tree portraits.

The publication of Remarkable Trees of the World took American audiences by storm. Thomas Pakenha...

The thrilling adventures of the plant-hunters who created the modern British landscape

Reissue of the definitive and highly acclaimed history of The Boer War, first published in 1979

The extraordinary race for African territory that began in the 1880s and swept the political mast...

In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later...