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- Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (born 14 August 1933), known simply as Thomas Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish historian and arborist who has written several prize-winning books on the diverse subjects of African history, Victorian and post-Victorian British history, and trees.
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Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (born 14 August 1933), known simply as Thomas Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish historian and arborist who has written several prize-winning books on the diverse subjects of African history, Victorian and post-Victorian British history, and trees.
The book was written by historian and arborist Thomas Pakenham and published in 1991, by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the United Kingdom and Random House in the United States.
- Thomas Pakenham
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Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford, is known simply as Thomas Pakenham. He is an Anglo-Irish historian and arborist who has written several prize-winning books on the diverse subjects of Victorian and post-Victorian British history and trees.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Thomas Pakenham's The Scramble for Africa chronicles the high point of European imperialism: the rush to claim colonies out of unoccupied (by other European powers) Africa in the last quarter of the 19th Century. Pakenham's book, although relatively limited in time, entertains an impressive scope: we see familiar dramas like the Exploration of ...
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Nov 12, 2002 · On a crisp autumn Saturday, Thomas Pakenham, who is the Earl of Longford but does not use the title, hiked through the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and stopped to admire a Caucasian wing nut tree.
Sep 24, 2015 · The Scramble For Africa. Thomas Pakenham. Little, Brown Book Group, Sep 24, 2015 - History - 768 pages. In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty...
Thomas Pakenham. Random House, 1991 - History - 738 pages. Panoramic history at its best: a vivid, dramatic account of how five rapacious European powers seized and subjugated an entire...
