Writing the Garden
A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries
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 fr…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7490-1695-1
- EAN: 9780749016951
- Produktnummer: 15971548
- Verlag: Allison & Busby
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'617 KB
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A longtime resident of New York City, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the author of seven books on landscape-design history and the cultural meaning of place. In 1979 she became the first person to hold the title Central Park Administrator, and in 1980 she founded the Central Park Conservancy. In 2005 she established the Foundation for Landscape Studies, a donor-supported organization that publishes the journal Site/Lines and an imprint series of books on landscape-related subjects. Over the years she has received numerous awards for her work as a writer and landscape preservationist.
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