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Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed: Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens
Nuala C. Johnson
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Description for Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed: Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens
Hardback. This highly engaging book offers a wealth of fresh insights into both the history and development of botanical gardens as well as connections between science and aesthetics. Series: Tauris Historical Geography Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 28 bw integrated illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTP; PST. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 240 x 29. Weight in Grams: 618.
Botanical gardens brought together in a single space the great diversity of the earth's flora. They displaced nature from forest and foothill and re-arranged it to reveal something of the scientific principles underpinning the apparent chaos of the wild. Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed shows how the design and display of such gardens was not determined by scientific principles alone. Through a study of three botanical gardens - belonging to the University of Cambridge, the Royal Dublin Society, and the Belfast Natural History Society - the author shows how the final outcome involved a complex interplay of ideas about place, ... Read more
Botanical gardens brought together in a single space the great diversity of the earth's flora. They displaced nature from forest and foothill and re-arranged it to reveal something of the scientific principles underpinning the apparent chaos of the wild. Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed shows how the design and display of such gardens was not determined by scientific principles alone. Through a study of three botanical gardens - belonging to the University of Cambridge, the Royal Dublin Society, and the Belfast Natural History Society - the author shows how the final outcome involved a complex interplay of ideas about place, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
Tauris Historical Geography Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848857124
SKU
V9781848857124
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99-10
About Nuala C. Johnson
Nuala C. Johnson is Reader in Human Geography at the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast. Her previous books include 'Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance' (2003) and, as co-editor, 'Companion to Cultural Geography' (2004) and 'Culture and Society' (2008).
Reviews for Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed: Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens
'Nuala Johnson's masterful ethnography of three sites where the canons of science and aesthetics are refracted and blurred demonstrates why a geographical imagination matters. This is comparative history at its best.' - James S. Duncan, University of Cambridge