“American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . .
. fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge“Informative and absolutely ...
In a letter to Sir Thomas Browne about his proposed magnum opus on gardens, John
Evelyn stated his purpose: to refine upon some particulars, especially concerning the ornaments of Gardens, which I shal endeavor so to handle that persons of ...
The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental
flowering plants. Designed to meet the highest scientific standards, the vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully ...
Carmontelle’s landmark publication, Garden at Monceau, beautifully reproduced to show the Parisian garden’s artistic and
cultural importance before the French Revolution. Originally published in 1779, Garden at Monceau is a richly illustrated presentation of the garden Louis Carrogis, known as ...
A sweeping, multifaceted tale of a young Native American pulled between the cherished traditions of
a heritage on the brink of extinction and an encroaching white culture, Gardens in the Dunes is the powerful story of one woman’s quest to ...
The Quiet War is over. The city states of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn
have fallen to the Three Powers Alliance of Greater Brazil, the European Union and the Pacific Community. A century of enlightenment, rational utopianism and exploration ...
The Landscape Garden: the quiet but startling national revolution that overthrew the parterres, avenues and
canals of formal European-style gardens littering Britain in the eighteenth century. Thousands of landscape gardens were created for the wealthy, often looking so natural that ...
Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David
Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of ...