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Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction)
Sharon White
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Description for Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction)
Hardcover. Gives a portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in Philadelphia and of the ways that gardening can connect nature to urban space. This book explores the city as a part of its ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her home. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; WMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 431.
This title encounters an urban landscape through the eye of a gardener.New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in Vanished Gardens. In prose, now as precise and considered as the paths in a parterre, now as flowing and lyrical as an Olmsted vista, White explores the city as a part of its ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her home.In one section of the book, White tours the gardens of colonial botanist John Bartram; his wife, Ann; ... Read more
This title encounters an urban landscape through the eye of a gardener.New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in Vanished Gardens. In prose, now as precise and considered as the paths in a parterre, now as flowing and lyrical as an Olmsted vista, White explores the city as a part of its ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her home.In one section of the book, White tours the gardens of colonial botanist John Bartram; his wife, Ann; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820331560
SKU
V9780820331560
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About Sharon White
Sharon White is the author of Field Notes: A Geography of Mourning and Bone House and is a lecturer in English at Temple University. She lives and gardens in Philadelphia and Brownsville, Vermont.
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