Thomas Pakenham. Remarkable Trees of the World, W. W. Norton 2002. 192pp $49.95 HB 10" x 11" pages 

These are portraits, not just pictures, each book documenting the impressive presence of sixty venerable trees from around the world. Pakenham groups them by their histories: Natives, Travelers, Shrines, Fantasies and Survivors. Each is a testimony to the majesty of Nature's creativity, diversity and adaptability. Pakenham shares the unique history of each of these outstanding personalities, in the context of its species and its struggles for survival -- ever threatened by man's over-cutting and under-husbandry of these irreplaceable resources.

Inspirational!