Gardening : A Century in Photographs 1900-2000

Griffiths, Mark; Times Staff

ISBN 10: 000710409X / ISBN 13: 9780007104093

Edité par Times Books the Royal Horticultural Society, 2000

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Very good condition book and DJ not price clipped. 216 pages good and clean with clear print, indexed. 'A Century of Photographs: Gardening combines two of the century's best loved passions - gardening and photographs. In a remarkable pictorial survey.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Gardening : A Century in Photographs 1900-2000
• Éditeur: Times Books the Royal Horticultural Society
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 000710409X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780007104093
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book combines two of this century’s best loved passions, Gardening and Photography. In a unique and remarkable pictorial survey, the author tells the story of gardening in the twentieth century, with special emphasis on British, North American, Western European, Chinese and Japanese gardens.

The Times: A Century of Photographs – Gardening combines two of this century’s best loved passions – Gardening and Photography. Over 300 photographs – a mixture of b/w and colour – have been chosen for their humour, charm, aesthetic, curiosity and historical value. Some are hauntingly beautiful, others remarkably rare. Others still depict not only garden history, but social history in the making – snapshots, for example, of gardens in the Second World War when every spare yard of soil (castle moats, royal parks and polo grounds included) was devoted to vegetable production. Arranged chronologically, the photographs are each accompanied by an explanatory caption.

Drawing on the photographic archives of the Royal Horticultural Society, The Times and the Hulton Getty Picture Library, this is the story of gardening’s triumph at the century’s end as the most popular and multi-faceted pastime of all.

À propos de l?auteur

After leaving Oxford University, Mark Griffiths worked at Oxford Univeristy’s Department of Plant Sciences and Botanic Gardens before moving to the Roayl Botanic Gardens, Kew. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society aged twenty three. His published works include `The New Royal Horticultural Dictionary of Gardening’ and the `RHS Shorter Dictionary of Gardening’. He serves on the commitees of the RHS and the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens.