Writing the Garden: A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries - Couverture rigide

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1567924409 ISBN 13 : 9781567924404

Editeur : David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2011

Synopsis

This is a fascinating exploration of the writings and personalities who have shaped our ideas about gardens and gardening. Gardening, more than most outdoor activities, has always attracted a cult of devotedly literate practitioners - people who like to dig, it appears, also like to write. And many of them write exceedingly well. Focusing on gardeners' words about the art of gardening, "Writing the Garden" brings together a diverse array of authors. For the most part they are not professional landscape designers or how-to horticulturalists, but rather hands-on gardeners who write with their own gardens in full-view. Ranging in time and place from Enlightenment France to modern-day New York City, they invite the reader into the natural world of soil and flowers. Authors discussed include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Russell Page, Lynden Miller, and many more.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies, the founding president of the Central Park Conservatory, and an award-winning author.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1567924409
• ISBN 13: 9781567924404
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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