Across the Open Field
Subtitle: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780812235319
Subjects: Landscape art & architecture; History; English Garden Design And Planting; Landscape Architecture And Design; Gardening; English; Architecture; England; Landscape; Journeys; Olin, Laurie; Gardens; Gardens, English; Landscape architecture
First sentence: ONE DAY NEAR THE END of my first summer in Britain, while Magdalen College, Oxford, the cumulative experience of recent walks, sights, senses, and ideas, the layering of efforts and disciplines that have made the landscape of southern Britain, became overwhelming.