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Vanished Gardens
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Author : Sharon White
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Vanished Gardens written by Sharon White and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 Philadelphia's gardens as a part of the city's 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; and their son, writer and naturalist William. Other chapters focus on Deborah Logan, who kept a record of her life on a large farm in the late eighteenth century, and Mary Gibson Henry, twentieth-century botanist, plant collector, and namesake of the lily Hymenocallis henryae. Throughout White weaves passages from diaries, letters, and memoirs from significant Philadephia gardeners into her own striking prose, transforming each place she examines into a palimpsest of the underlying earth and the human landscapes layered over it. White gives a surprising portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in Philadelphia and of the ways that gardening can connect nature to urban space. She shows that although gardens may vanish forever, the meaning and solace inherent in the act of gardening are always waiting to be discovered anew.
Vanished Gardens
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
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The Vanished Gardens Of Cordova
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Author : Emil Rem
language : en
Publisher: Eica Press
Release Date : 2023-12-11
The Vanished Gardens Of Cordova written by Emil Rem and has been published by Eica Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-11 with categories.
The adventure continues... In his third novel-using his signature blend of personal memories interwoven with history and depictions of his ongoing travels, the author takes us through Spain and Gibraltar-creating an insightful narrative around a vivid host of characters and experiences on this journey to rediscover the 'vanished' landscapes of his culture and his childhood. ..."Sitting cross-legged in his tent, Prince Feisal laments, "But you know Lieutenant, in the Arab city of Cordova were two miles of public lighting in the streets when London was a village?" "Yes, you were great," Lawrence admitted. "Nine centuries ago." "Time to be great again, my lord." "My father is old and I...I long for the vanished gardens of Cordova." Cordova. The name hung over him like rich, intoxicating Arab perfume. He had longed to visit her since a child. What would she be like? Were her gardens still abloom? ..." Emil Rem-an eccentric accountant, has become a writer of eccentric characters in exotic locales-using his stories to take us on a trip into his fascinating twisted world. Born to a close-knit, Muslim, East Indian family in Dar-es-Salam in the 50's, he then moved to Maidenhead, England at the age of five. The next twenty years were spent shuttling between England and East Africa-attending Christian church wearing a St. Christopher's Cross one minute, to wearing a green armband at Muslim religious classes in Africa the next. These days, Emil and his wife (originally from the Philippines) live in Calgary, Canada. They have two sons. "It's alright! He's from Barcelona." -B.F.- "Yup." -Jacques-Henri Mainguy- Visit Emil @ www.emilrem.ca
A Vanished Garden
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Author : Walter Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
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Scotland S Lost Gardens
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Author : Marilyn Brown (archaeological investigator.)
language : en
Publisher: Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales
Release Date : 2012
Scotland S Lost Gardens written by Marilyn Brown (archaeological investigator.) and has been published by Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Gardening categories.
Gardens are one of the most important elements in the cultural history of Scotland. Like any art form, they provide an insight into social, political and economic fashions, they intimately reflect the personalities and ideals of the individuals who created them, and they capture the changing fortunes of successive generations of monarchs and noblemen. Yet they remain fragile features of the landscape, easily changed, abandoned or destroyed, leaving little or no trace.In Scotland's Lost Gardens, author Marilyn Brown rediscovers the fascinating stories of the nation's vanished historic gardens. Drawing on varied, rare and newly available archive material, including the cartography of Timothy Pont, a spy map of Holyrood drawn for Henry VIII during the 'Rough Wooing', medieval charters, renaissance poetry, the Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer, and modern aerial photography, a remarkable picture emerges of centuries of lost landscapes.Starting with the monastic gardens of St Columba on the Isle of Iona in the sixth century, and encompassing the pleasure parks of James IV and James V, the royal and noble refuges of Mary Queen of Scots, and the 'King's Knot', the garden masterpiece which lies below Stirling Castle, the history of lost gardens is inextricably linked to the wider history of the nation, from the spread of Christianity to the Reformation and the Union of the Crowns.The product of over 30 years of research, Scotland's Lost Gardens demonstrates how our cultural heritage sits within a wider European movement of shared artistic values and literary influences. Providing a unique perspective on this common past, it is also a fascinating guide to Scotland's disappeared landscapes and sanctuaries - lost gardens laid out many hundreds of years ago 'for the honourable delight of body and soul'.
Canon Of The Five Orders Of Architecture
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Author : Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Canon Of The Five Orders Of Architecture written by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Architecture categories.
"This Dover edition, first published in 2010, is an unabridged republication of The Regular Architect: or the General Rule of the Five Orders of Architecture, printed for William Sherwin, London, in 1669."
Old London Gardens
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Author : Gladys Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Old London Gardens written by Gladys Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Gardens categories.
The Incarnate Saviour
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Author : Sir William Robertson Nicoll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
The Incarnate Saviour written by Sir William Robertson Nicoll and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with categories.
Devon Gardens
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Author : Steven Pugsley
language : en
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Release Date : 1994
Devon Gardens written by Steven Pugsley and has been published by Sutton Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Architecture categories.
The Gardens Of Japan
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Author : Jiro Harada
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-04
The Gardens Of Japan written by Jiro Harada and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Social Science categories.
First published in 2005. In Japan, the garden is considered a barometer of the nation's prosperity and character, and different periods in history have produced different kinds of gardens. Harada gives brief summaries of them all, including the Edo period (1603-1867), when professional gardeners first took over the design of gardens from priests, and reveals a few of the subtle distinctions that the Japanese use to distinguish between different kinds of gardens that appear identical to Western eyes. As a reaction to all things foreign, the gardens of the Meiji Restoration period (1868-1912), on which the book concentrates, revived the earlier simpler cha-no-yu style of garden heavily influenced by Zen. A special feature of the book is rare period photographs of famous parks and the now vanished gardens of Japanese aristocrats.