Great Gardens of the World
Subtitle: In Search of Paradise
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: September 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780711226159
Subjects: Garden design & planning; General; Gardening; Gardening / Horticulture; Gardening/Plants; Gardening / General; Regional - General
First sentence: As recorded in the Old Testament - the scripture common to Judaism, Christianity and Islam - the Garden of Eden was identified with Paradise.
Description: In Search of Paradise is a survey of the great gardens of the world, presented through photographic images and the descriptions of the garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse. Here you will find the oases of the Middle East, the gardens of Chinese scholars, Japanese sages and Renaissance humanists, French baroque gardens, the English landscape garden of Capability Brown and his followers. Here too are the gardens of the great modern designers, among them Roberto Burle Marx, Fernando Caruncho, Dan Kiley, John Brookes and James van Sweden.