The Garden of Eden : the botanic garden and the re-creation of paradise / John Prest.

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Prest, John M.

Title & Author:

The Garden of Eden : the botanic garden and the re-creation of paradise / John Prest.

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Description:

121 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-119) and index.
Preface : why did we redo it again? -- Prologue:the question that started it all -- What is the good life? -- Unpacking your bags -- Repacking your place bag -- Repacking your relationship bag -- Repacking your work bag -- Repacking on purpose -- The freedom of the road -- Epilogue lightening your load.

Summary:

Throughout the middle ages the peoples of Europe believed that the original home of mankind had lain in a garden, where the climate was always mild and the trees flowered continuously. The Fall and the Expulsion were held responsible for the differences between the seasons, and for the disordered world which lay between the frozen wastes to the North and the scorching deserts to the South; for the need to toil in the fields, for pain, for sorrow, and for death. Nobody knew for certain whether the Garden of Eden had been swept away by the Flood, and it seems to have been generally assumed that an early paradise still existed. With the fifteenth-century voyages of exploration hopes ran high that the Garden might yet be rediscovered, and Columbus believed that he had identified its location in the New World. As the sixteenth century wore on, and no authentic Paradise was found, men began to think, instead, of searching the globe for the scattered pieces of the creation, and collecting them together in to Botanic Gardens. In this way the best hopes of mankind in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries came to rest, not in 'progress' or in some foreshadowing of the industrial revolution, but in the recovery of the original home, in a 'Garden of Re-Creation'. This book explores the development of the Botanic Garden in Europe in the light of this view of the world and shows how the famous early gardens in Paris, Oxford, Padua, Leyden and Uppsala sought to re-create the Garden of Eden.

ISBN:

0300027265
9780300027266
0300043708
9780300043709

Subject:

Botanical gardens Europe History.
Jardins botaniques Europe Histoire.
Botanical gardens
Botanischer Garten
Gartenkunst
Paradies
Botanische tuinen.
Paradijs.
Jardins botànics Europa Història.
Europe
Europa

Form/genre:

History
Illustrated works.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 23829
Call No.: 8933; ID:88-B10249
Status: Available

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