The Making Of The English Gardener
Author: Margaret Willes
Editor: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300163827
File Size: 13,23 MB
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The people and publications at the root of a national obsession
Editor: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300163827
File Size: 13,23 MB
Format: PDF
Read: 8420
Language: en
Pages: 299
Pages: 299
The people and publications at the root of a national obsession
Language: en
Pages: 346
Pages: 346
This first history of landscape architecture in Australia profiles the people who have shaped the nation’s landscape and forged a profession: designers, architects, public servants and activists. Using archival images and plans, the book recounts in fascinating detail milestones such as the creation of Melbourne’s public parks, the acclaimed private
Language: en
Pages: 326
Pages: 326
Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ‘Gothic’ villa and garden beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we can read the story of its creator, Horace Walpole. This 'man of taste' created private resonances, pleasure and entertainment - a collusion of the historic,
Language: en
Pages: 413
Pages: 413
This magnificently illustrated people’s history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own. Spanning more than four centuries, from the earliest records of the laboring classes in the country to today, Margaret Willes's
Language: en
Pages: 292
Pages: 292
For centuries, the English Lake District has been renowned as an important cultural, sacred and literary landscape. It is therefore surprising that there has so far been no in-depth critical examination of the Lake District from a tourism and heritage perspective. Bringing together leading writers from a wide range of