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Caroline Seebohm

Rescuing Eden

Preserving America's Historic Gardens

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From simple 18th- and early 19th-century gardens to the lavish estates of the Gilded Age, the gardens started by 1930s inmates at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay to the centuries-old camellias at Middleton Place near Charleston, South Carolina-Rescuing Eden celebrates the history of garden design in the United States, with 28 examples that have been saved by ardent conservationists and generous private owners, and opened to the public. The United States has a rich tradition of landscape design, with gardens on a scale that rivaled the great gardens of Europe, but in the absence of specific institutions dedicated to their preservation, many of t… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Taylor, Curtice
  • ISBN: 978-1-58093-408-4
  • EAN: 9781580934084
  • Produktnummer: 17439421
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.

Über den Autor


Caroline Seebohm is a design historian and biographer. A prolific author, her books include Boca Rococo, a biography of Palm Beach architect Addison Mizner, At Home with Books, and Cottages and Mansions of the Jersey Shore, as well as biographies of Marietta Tree, Conde Nast, and tennis legend Pancho Segura. Curtice Tayor is a well-known landscape and garden photographer whose work is widely published. He teaches photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

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