Baobabs Of The World

Author : Andry Petignat
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781775844723

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Baobabs of the World by Andry Petignat Pdf

A photographic masterpiece, this beautiful book is a fitting tribute to the baobab – an extraordinary and majestic tree found principally in Madagascar, and peripherally in Africa and Australia. The first section offers a short introduction to the classification and general description of baobabs, details of their life history, biogeography, dispersal and their role in people’s lives. The second section comprises a guide to each of the eight baobab species, including botanical description, details of their habitat, distribution and principal uses, accompanied by clear images and line drawings of the leaves, flowers, fruits and growth habit of each species. Interesting text and lavish photographs throughout make this book irresistible for specialist botanists and lay enthusiasts alike, and it will have particular appeal for tourists too.

Author : Beth Moon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780789214096

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Baobab by Beth Moon Pdf

A spectacular oversize photo book celebrating Africa’s most majestic trees—which are now facing an unprecedented ecological threat. Baobabs are one of Africa’s natural wonders: they can live more than 2,000 years, and their massive, water-storing trunks can grow to more than one hundred feet in circumference. They serve as a renewable source of food, fiber, and fuel, as well as a focus of spiritual life. But now, suddenly, the largest baobabs are dying off , literally collapsing under their own weight. Scientists believe these ancient giants are being dehydrated by drought and higher temperatures, likely the result of climate change. Photographer Beth Moon, already responsible for some of the most indelible images of Africa’s oldest and largest baobabs, has undertaken a new photographic pilgrimage to bear witness to this environmental catastrophe and document the baobabs that still survive. In this oversize volume, Moon presents breathtaking new duotone tree portraits of the baobabs of Madagascar, Botswana, South Africa, and Senegal. She recounts her eventful journey to visit these monumental trees in a moving diaristic text studded with color travel photos. This book also includes an essay by Adrian Patrut, leader of a research team that has studied Africa's largest baobabs and alerted the world tot he threat these majestic trees are facing. Baobab is not only a compelling photo book and travel narrative, but also a timely ecological warning.

Author : Wilma Stockenstrom
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935744924

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The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenstrom Pdf

Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In solitude, she is finally able to reflect on her own existence and its meaning, bringing her a semblance of inner peace. Scenes from her former life shuttle through her mind: how owner after owner assaulted her, and how each of her babies were taken away as soon as they were weaned, their futures left to her imagination. We are the sole witnesses to her history: her capture as a child, her tortured days in a harbor city on the eastern coast as a servant, her journey with her last owner and protector, her flight, and the kaleidoscopic world of her baobab tree. Wilma Stockenström's profound work of narrative fiction, translated by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, is a rare, haunting exploration of enslavement and freedom.

Author : Barbara Bash
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0613793005

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Tree Of Life by Barbara Bash Pdf

Text and pictures document the life cycle of this amazing tree of the African savannah, and portrays the animals and people it helps to support.

Author : Thomas Pakenham
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0393059898

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The Remarkable Baobab by Thomas Pakenham Pdf

Acclaimed historian Thomas Pakenham-who has dramatized in photographs and words the sheer majesty of trees throughout the world-now trains his lens on the most mysterious of trees, the baobab, with spectacular results. His search for the world's most striking baobabs has led him over the last eight years on a trail from sub-Saharan Africa to Madagascar and Australia, the Caribbean, and the United States. Here, in The Remarkable Baobab, Pakenham records his personal encounters with these mysterious giants, tracing their mythologies, their natural grandeur, and their origins, as well as their chances of survival in an uncertain environment. As Pakenham notes, the baobab may indeed be one of the oldest life forms on the planet, and many of the specimens still standing today have been alive for well over a thousand years. Standing tall on the savannahs of Africa and the sunburned plains of Australia, they are tremendous in size and have provided food, medicine, and places of refuge and worship to many, even serving as prisons, tombs, and ossuaries on occasion. Over the last one thousand years they have gained mythical status among many peoples, due in no small part to their appearance-without leaves, the branches of the trees look like roots growing into the sky. The Remarkable Baobab also includes a special section devoted to two famous baobabs in North America-one which is now over twenty feet in girth and is planted on a private Florida estate, the other a breathtaking specimen on the campus of the University of Arizona that was brought to the United States by smugglers. These stories are but two examples provided by Thomas Pakenham in The Remarkable Baobab, a book that is as visually bewitching as the baobab itself. Book jacket.

Author : Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani,Viviana Mazza
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062696748

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Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani,Viviana Mazza Pdf

Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival. Includes an afterword by award-winning journalist Viviana Mazza. A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband—these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren’t too far out of reach. But the girl’s dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she is forced to follow her captors’ radical beliefs and watch as her best friend slowly accepts everything she’s been told. Still, the girl defends her existence. As impossible as escape may seem, her life—her future—is hers to fight for.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309164540

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Lost Crops of Africa by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation Pdf

This report is the second in a series of three evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. The volume describes the characteristics of 18 little-known indigenous African vegetables (including tubers and legumes) that have potential as food- and cash-crops but are typically overlooked by scientists and policymakers and in the world at large. The book assesses the potential of each vegetable to help overcome malnutrition, boost food security, foster rural development, and create sustainable landcare in Africa. Each species is described in a separate chapter, based on information gathered from and verified by a pool of experts throughout the world. Volume I describes African grains and Volume III African fruits.

Author : Tom Jackson
Publisher : Lerner Publications TM
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9798765618677

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Baobab and More of the World's Most Amazing Plants by Tom Jackson Pdf

Explore Earth's weirdest forests, flowers that stink, and plants that kill in this engaging text. Full-color photographs and traveler's checklists bring the reader on an exciting journey through the world of amazing plants.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0780740661

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Tree of Life: The World of the African Baobab by Anonim Pdf

Author : G.E. Wickens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402064319

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The Baobabs: Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and Australia by G.E. Wickens Pdf

This is the only comprehensive account of all eight species in the genus Adansonia. It describes the historical background from the late Roman period to the present. It covers the extraordinary variety of economic uses of baobabs. There are also appendices on vernacular names, gazetteer, economics, nutrition and forest mensuration. This book fills a gap in the botanical literature. It deals with a genus that has fascinated and intrigued scientists and lay persons for centuries.

Author : Rupert Watson
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781775841692

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The African Baobab by Rupert Watson Pdf

The baobab is surely the botanical symbol of Africa, instantly recognizable from afar and a compelling icon of the African landscape. This age-old ‘upside-down tree’ invariably inspires wonder, awe and mystery, and has intrigued travellers for hundreds of years. In this absorbing and inspired account of The African Baobab, author Rupert Watson explores the life and times of this fascinating tree, from its early Madagascan beginnings to its present status on the continent and its future in a changing Africa. He effortlessly mixes natural science, history and personal experience, drawing on extracts from the journals of early explorers who, on encountering these extraordinary trees, measured and sketched them for a sceptical audience back home; and he presents intriguing, detailed accounts of the baobab’s eccentric growth and reproductive habits, its present-day distribution, and its wide impact on everyday African life. The author takes a close look at the myriad uses of baobabs over the ages: their hollow centres have served as prisons, toilets, wells and bars, and some specimens have even been used as a refuge in battle or as burial sites. Their fibre, seeds and fruit are credited with hundreds of applications, both practical and medicinal. Many locals feel a spiritual connection to these trees – believing them to possess mystical powers – and use them in rituals to promote healing or luck. Other relationships between humans and the baobab are explored too, often illustrated by delightful anecdotes. The rich and enthusiastic text is complemented by evocative, colourful images that show the curious baobab in all its many stages, moods and guises – and sometimes in the most unlikely places. This book cannot fail to inspire.

Author : Julie Stiegemeyer
Publisher : Zonderkidz
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780310739289

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Under the Baobab Tree by Julie Stiegemeyer Pdf

The baobab tree story, which I wrote (the church version) is actually based upon a true story, told by Limakatso Nare, a Lutheran pastor who is currently serving a congregation in Louisiana. When he was growing up in his native Africa, he gathered for Sunday school under the baobab tree. Here he learned the Biblical stories of Noah and the ark, Jonah and the big fish, and the parables of Jesus. His Sunday school experiences inspired my story, Under the Baobab Tree.

Author : Nelda LaTeef
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9988860382

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The Talking Baobab Tree by Nelda LaTeef Pdf

A rabbit, lost in the desert and saved by a baobab tree, outwits a stronger, envious neighbor.

Author : Cheryl Foggo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1897187912

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Dear Baobab by Cheryl Foggo Pdf

When Maiko has to leave his village in Africa to live with his aunt and uncle in Canada, he misses the giant baobab tree in the middle of his village but makes friends with a small spruce tree in his aunt and uncle's yard.

Author : M. Sidibe,J. T. Williams
Publisher : Crops for the Future
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Adansonia digitata
ISBN : 9780854327768

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Baobab, Adansonia Digitata L. by M. Sidibe,J. T. Williams Pdf