The Remarkable Baobab

Rating:
Summary: Nice
Review: This book will make a really splendid gift to anyone who loves trees. A well-printed book with really lovely pictures, it presents some of the most famous trees belonging to the genus _Adansonia_, focusing on trees as "trunks with branches". The text is well-written, and makes for a light read. Noticeable weak points are that the author's wife is in quite a few photographs although she does not take a particular good picture and that the author adopts _Adansonia_gibbosa_ as the name of the Australian baobab, instead of the better known (and now protected) _Adansonia_gregorii_ (without even explaining why he does this).