The Planters of the English Garden: Botany, Trees, and the Georgics.
Author: Douglas Chambers
Binding: Hardback
Published: New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Small piece missing from rear of DJ, otherwise internally sound.
This scholarly study of landscape history presents a rigorous account of how eighteenth century gardeners, botanists and poets shaped the English landscape garden through planting practice, classical learning and the agricultural imagination of the Georgic tradition. Chambers illustrates the intellectual and horticultural forces that guided tree selection, design philosophy and the cultural meaning of planted landscapes, producing a work that unites literary insight with environmental history.
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Author: Douglas Chambers
Binding: Hardback
Published: New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Small piece missing from rear of DJ, otherwise internally sound.
This scholarly study of landscape history presents a rigorous account of how eighteenth century gardeners, botanists and poets shaped the English landscape garden through planting practice, classical learning and the agricultural imagination of the Georgic tradition. Chambers illustrates the intellectual and horticultural forces that guided tree selection, design philosophy and the cultural meaning of planted landscapes, producing a work that unites literary insight with environmental history.
