The Garden: An English Love Affair : One Thousand Years of GardeningThe unique style of the English garden is admired and copied all over the world. This book shows how the gardens of each period reflect the political, social and cultural life, how they affected architecture, clothes and manners, and how ideas and plants from other continents were embraced to form the art of English garden making. The contributions and personalities of individual men and women are analysed and celebrated. The author reveals how each period was influenced by a love or hate relationship with nature, alternatively keeping it at bay or taming it, manipulating, romanticising or celebrating it. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis refreshing history of the English garden manages to entertain readers while giving them a scholarly history lesson. Dividing the book into 12 time periods, from medieval gardens to today's ... Read full review
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| Title | The Garden: An English Love Affair : One Thousand Years of Gardening One Thousand Years of Gardening |
| Author | Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Seven Dials, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1841882275, 9781841882277 |
| Length | 360 pages |
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