This other Eden : seven great gardens and three hundred years of English history / Andrea Wulf and Emma Gieben-Gamal.

Main entry:

Wulf, Andrea.

Title & Author:

This other Eden : seven great gardens and three hundred years of English history / Andrea Wulf and Emma Gieben-Gamal.

Publication:

London : Little, Brown, 2005.

Description:

414 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 1 map, portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In pursuit of pleasure: Hatfield House -- Subjugating nature: Hampton Court -- Nature to advantage dressed: Stowe -- All things speak a God: Hawkstone Park -- A benevolent landscape: Sheringham Park -- The genius of man: Chatsworth -- Our England is a garden: Hestercombe

Summary:

A ... 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 Gertrude Jekyll, who turned back to nature and designed the English cottage garden renowned the world over.

ISBN:

0316725803 (hardcover)
9780316725804 (hardcover)

Subject:

Gardens England.
Gardens, English History.
Gardens England History.
Jardins Angleterre Histoire.
Jardins anglais Histoire.
Jardins Angleterre.
Gardens.
Gardens, English.
Manners and customs.
England Social life and customs.
Angleterre Mœurs et coutumes.
England.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Gieben-Gamal, Emma.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245959
Call No.: BIB 175569
Status: Available

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