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Thomas Pakenham

Thomas Pakenham is a historian and the author of five books about trees, most recently The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime’s Quest. (December 2016)

The sycamore tree (Acer pseudoplatanus) at Sycamore Gap, Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland, England; photograph by Rory Garforth

The Bastard Sycamore

January 19, 2017 issue

Quiver Tree Forest, Namibia; photograph by Beth Moon from her book Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time (2014). A collection of her color photographs, Ancient Skies, Ancient Trees, has just been published by Abbeville.

What the Trees Say

Two outstanding new books on trees

The Long, Long Life of Trees

by Fiona Stafford

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World

by Peter Wohlleben, translated from the German by Jane Billinghurst

December 8, 2016 issue

Letter

Javier Peñalosa

The Bastard Sycamore

January 19, 2017 issue

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