Gardens of the World: The Great Traditions [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Stuart, Rory

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0711231303 ISBN 13: 9780711231306

Casa editrice: Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

Why have the peoples of the world made pleasure gardens, and why have they made them in such different styles? Here, author Rory Stuart explains how all pleasure gardens derive from one of the world's six great gardening traditions ? Italian, Islamic, Chinese, Japanese, English flower garden, and the English park ? making them the subject of this book. To create this mammoth resource, Stuart traveled around the world, from Buenos Aires to Vancouver, from Seattle to Cape Cod, from Ireland to India, to China, Japan, and Australia, touring and examining the differences in garden styles. Now he explains them here, abetted by beautiful full-color photos, approaching pleasure gardens as works of art and placing them in their historical and cultural context.

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Recensione:

My top choice in the category of beautiful books. Stuart has been a schoolmaster and is now a tour leader and garden-owner outside Rome. He writes with clear authority, but is effacingly modest about the foundations on which his global book rests. The colour pictures are stunning and every one of them seems to be his own, whether in Iran, Japan or America. Years of travel have gone into his survey, and as a result he presents gardens with an incisive understanding of their distinctive relationship to nature. Some great comments find a place too. --Financial Times

All gardening is borrowing and because of the way the book is organised, Stuart can frequently demonstrate how much one tradition may influence another. . . The scope of this book is extraordinarily wide, but Stuart's narrative steers clear of bog. It's a pleasure to read. --Independent

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'marvellously evocative'

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'An almost perfect gardening book'

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• Editore: Frances Lincoln Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0711231303
• ISBN 13: 9780711231306
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256