A01=Andrea Wulf
A01=Emma Gieben-Gamal
Author_Andrea Wulf
Author_Emma Gieben-Gamal
Brown
Brown Book Group
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-WM
Category=WMD
COP=United Kingdom
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Format=BC
HMM=232
IMPN=Little
ISBN13=9780349116594
Language_English
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20121025
POP=London
Price=€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=Little
SMM=29
Subject=Gardening
WG=1106
WMM=178
Product details
- ISBN 9780349116594
- Weight: 1106g
- Dimensions: 178 x 232 x 29mm
- Publication Date: 25 Oct 2012
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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THIS OTHER EDEN is a captivating narrative of seven great gardens, beautiful canvases that represent not just pleasure grounds but a country's evolution. Showpieces of grand design, they are also barometers of social change; lasting reflections of intellectual endeavour, of religion and philosophy, science and technology, art and literature. From Robert Cecil's garden at Hatfield House, conceived by the famous botanist and plant-collector John Tradescant, who travelled widely to seek out unusual specimens, to Capability Brown, who 'improved' upon nature to create the archetypal English parkland; from Joseph Paxton, whose engineering feats at Chatsworth mirrored the great Victorian age of technology, to Getrude Jekyll, who turned back to nature and designed the English cottage garden renowned the world over, this beautifully illustrated book will join the ranks of other bestselling cultural histories of the garden such as Anna Pavord's THE TULIP and Simon Schama's THE EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES.
Emma Gieben-Gamal and Andrea Wulf, who met at the Royal College of Art, are both art historians. They have written widely for design and architectural magazines and now run a highly successful design consultancy. This is their first book.
