Plantsman S Paradise
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Plantsman S Paradise
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Author : Roy Lancaster
language : en
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
Release Date : 2008
Plantsman S Paradise written by Roy Lancaster and has been published by Antique Collectors Club Dist this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Gardening categories.
A long awaited new edition of this classic text on the plants of china with new text and many new color photographs.
Pathologies Of Paradise
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Author : Supriya M. Nair
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2013-09-24
Pathologies Of Paradise written by Supriya M. Nair and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Pathologies of Paradise presents the rich complexity of anglophone Caribbean literature from pluralistic perspectives that contest the reduction of the region to Edenic or infernal stereotypes. But rather than reiterate the familiar critiques of these stereotypes, Supriya Nair draws on the trope of the detour to plumb the depths of anti-paradise discourse, showing how the Caribbean has survived its history of colonization and slavery. In her reading of authors such as Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, V. S. Naipaul, Zadie Smith, Junot Díaz, and Pauline Melville, among others, she examines dominant symbols and events that shape the literature and history of postslavery and postcolonial societies: the garden and empire, individual and national trauma, murder and massacre, contagion and healing, grotesque humor and the carnivalesque. In ranging across multiple contexts, generations, and genres, the book maps a syncretic and flexible approach to Caribbean literature that demonstrates the supple literary cartographies of New World identities.
Plants Of Paradise
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Author : Robin Robinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Plants Of Paradise written by Robin Robinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Gardening categories.
The Pursuit Of Paradise
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Author : Jane Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Pursuit Of Paradise written by Jane Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Gardening categories.
Full of fascinating characters and vignettes - from ancient Greeks to suffragettes, from eccentric military men to Catholics in hiding from persecution - this text looks into how society's changes have altered our views of gardening, who does it, and how we do it. What drives people to risk their lives in search of a rare Himalayan flower? Why are so many gardeners homosexual? How did gardening become a respectable career for women? When did looking at other people's gardens become a national British pastime?
Island Paradise
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Author : Melanie A. Murray
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2009
Island Paradise written by Melanie A. Murray and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
A colonial discourse has perpetuated the literary notion of islands as paradisal. This study explores how the notions of island paradise have been represented in European literature, the oral and literary indigenous traditions of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka, a colonial literary influence in these islands, and the literary experience after independence in these nations. Persistent themes of colonial narratives foreground the aesthetic and ignore the workforce in a representation of island space as idealized, insular, and vulnerable to conquest; an ideal space for management and control. English landscape has been replicated in islands through literature and in reality - the 'Great House' being an ideological symbol of power. Island Paradise: The Myth investigates how these entrenched notions of paradise, which islands have traditionally represented metonymically, are contested in the works of four postcolonial authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Lawrence Scott, Romesh Gunesekera, and Jean Arasanayagam, from the island nations of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka. It analyzes texts which focus on gardens, island space, and houses to examine how these motifs are used to re-vision colonial/contested sites. This book examines the relationship between landscape and identity and, with reference to Homi K. Bhabha, considers how these writers offer an alternative space for negotiating the ambivalence of hybridity.
A Better View Of Paradise
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Author : Randy Sue Coburn
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2009-07-14
A Better View Of Paradise written by Randy Sue Coburn and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-14 with Fiction categories.
Dramatic, moving, and exquisitely written, A Better View of Paradise explores the tender bond between fathers and daughters, ponders the delicate nature of healing, and celebrates the redemptive power of forgiveness and love. Thirty-six-year-old Stevie Pollack has come into her own as a celebrated landscape architect. Her designs, famed for their evocative natural beauty, reflect her upbringing amid the splendor of Hawai‘i. But when critics blast her latest efforts and her boyfriend abruptly ends their relationship, Stevie seeks solace in her roots among the dazzling flowers, and comforting traditions of the islands and their calming waters. Still, in the back of her mind, Hawai‘i holds troubling memories of a childhood with Hank, her emotionally distant father, and a reserved British mother. Despite her irascible father’s presence, the trip home promises Stevie a welcome departure from her trials on the mainland. But the shocking news that Hank is dying forces the pair’s reunion into high gear. As father and daughter attempt to rekindle their bond, Stevie discovers sides of Hank she never knew, including family secrets that have shaped their lives. And what started as a holiday escape for the beleaguered architect becomes a chance for transformation, one as exciting as it is uncertain. Inspired by her father’s insight, and energized by the attentions of an attractive local veterinarian, Stevie learns to surrender her inhibitions and seize the day.
The Garden Of Paradise
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1716
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Survival In Paradise
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Author : Manfred Wolf
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2014-04-10
Survival In Paradise written by Manfred Wolf and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Survival in Paradise: Sketches From a Refugee Life in Curaao is a funny, moving memoir of growing up in the Caribbean West Indies, in the aftermath of World War Two. The narrative covers Manfreds childhood and adolescent years in Suriname and Curacao between 1942 to 1951, focusing on his development between the ages of eight and seventeen. In doing so, it renders through specific moments the long, sad shadow cast by the war over the refugees. In Curacao, the Wolf familys life was shaped by three occasionally clashing cultures: colonial Dutch, native Curaaoan, and, of course, the refugee culture itself. The family found itself surrounded by a joyous tropical culture, one to which, as a boy, Manfred yearned to belong. Meanwhile, his parents, each in their own way, brooded about the horrors so recently experienced and never fully left behind.
The Plantsman
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Plantsman written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Botany categories.
Seeds Of Fortune
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Author : Sue Shephard
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-11-05
Seeds Of Fortune written by Sue Shephard and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-05 with Gardening categories.
For over a century, and across five generations, the Veitch family pioneered the introduction of hundreds of new plants into gardens, conservatories and houses and were amongst the foremost European cultivators and hybridisers of their day. The story begins in 1768 when a Scotsman called John Veitch came to England to find his fortune, starting out as a gardener for the aristocracy. Realising that horticultural mania had begun to spread throughout the social classes, John's son, James, opened a nursery in Exeter and began to send some of the first commercial plant collectors into the Americas, Australia, India, Japan, China and the South Seas. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the Veitch's had become key figures within the gardening establishment, involved with the Royal Horticultural Society from its beginnings and the great Chelsea Flower Show. Combining an historian's eye for detail with a flair for storytelling, Shephard charts the fortunes of one family and through them tells the fascinating story of the modern English garden.