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Writing The Garden: A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
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Description for Writing The Garden: A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries
Hardback. People who like to dig, it would appear, also like to write. And many of them write exceedingly well. In this thoughtful, personal, and embracing consideration of garden writing, garden historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers selects and discusses the best garden writers. Num Pages: 318 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; WMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 198 x 28. Weight in Grams: 384.
Gardening has always attracted devotedly literate practitioners; people who like to dig, it would appear, also like to write. And many of them write exceedingly well. Focusing on gardeners' words about the art of gardening, and ranging in time and place from Enlightenment France to modern-day New York, Writing the Garden brings together a diverse array of authors including Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Roy Strong. For the most part they are not professional landscape designers or how-to horticulturalists, but rather hands-on gardeners who write with their own gardens in full view.
Gardening has always attracted devotedly literate practitioners; people who like to dig, it would appear, also like to write. And many of them write exceedingly well. Focusing on gardeners' words about the art of gardening, and ranging in time and place from Enlightenment France to modern-day New York, Writing the Garden brings together a diverse array of authors including Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Roy Strong. For the most part they are not professional landscape designers or how-to horticulturalists, but rather hands-on gardeners who write with their own gardens in full view.
Product Details
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749016906
SKU
V9780749016906
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99-50
About Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. A resident of New York City since 1964, Rogers was the first person to hold the title of Central Park Administrator, and she was the founding president of the Central Park Conservancy. Rogers has won numerous awards for her work as a writer and landscape preservationist.
Reviews for Writing The Garden: A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries
'Her book is a delight to have and to hold, small enough to slip into a pocket to read in the garden' Times Literary Supplement 'In this thoughtful, personal, and embracing consideration of garden writing, garden historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers selects and discusses the best garden writers, picking delightful examples that span two countries' Countryside La Vie