A Passion For Trees: The Legacy Of John Evelyn - Rilegato

Campbell-Culver, Maggie

9781903919477: A Passion For Trees: The Legacy Of John Evelyn

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ISBN 10: 1903919479 ISBN 13: 9781903919477

Casa editrice: Eden Project Books, 2006

Given the extent of his influence on 17th-century life, and his lasting impact on the British landscape it is remarkable that no book has been written before about John Evelyn. He was a longstanding friend of Samuel Pepys (who wrote of him, ' A most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for conceitedness; but he may well be so, being a man so much above others.'), a founder-member of the Royal Society and a prolific writer and diarist. He was an early advocate of the garden city but his most important work was Sylva: a Discourse of Forest Trees. Sylva was presented to the Royal Society to promote the planting of timber trees 'for the supply of the Navy, the employment and advantage of the poor as well as the ornamenting of the nation.' He was responsible for the first great raft of tree-planting and for a great influx of tree introductions to Britain.

Maggie Campbell-Culver's book, like Sylva, has at its core a section detailing the characteristics, history and uses of 33 trees incorporating the advice Evelyn gave and demonstrating its relevance still in the 20th-century. Not only was Evelyn probably the first horticultural writer to show an appreciation of the aesthetic benefits of trees in our landscape, he is shown to be a founder-father of the modern conservation movement.

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Recensione:

"A Passion for Trees is beautifully illustrated with paintings and sumptuous botanical drawings." (Andrea Wulf Guardian)

"Well-designed and knowledgeable." (London Review of Books)

"Treat A Passion for Trees like a stroll through the woods in the company of a great man." (Manchester Evening News)

". . . a timely tercentennial reassessment . . . beautifully illustrated and evocatively, if discursively, written, taking the reader into Evelyn's world but also persuasively arguing for his role as a pioneer environmentalist still relevant today . . . [Campbell-Culver] makes a convincing case for John Evelyn as the transitional figure between the order of the Renaissance garden and the naturalistic eighteenth-century landscape movement." (Wesley Kerr Times Literary Supplement)

Descrizione del libro:

Published in the tercentenary year of his death, this celebrates the man, his greatest work, and the crucial role trees play in all our lives. Includes over 30 detailed word pictures of trees found in British woodland.

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