Great Gardens of the World
In Search of Paradise
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Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7791758M
- ISBN-139780711226159
- ISBN-100711226156
- OCLC Control Number65468346
- OCLC Control Numberinsearchofparadi0000hobh
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- Goodreads15999
- LibraryThing1445170
Classifications
- LCCSB453
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.
First Sentence
As recorded in the Old Testament - the scripture common to Judaism, Christianity and Islam - the Garden of Eden was identified with Paradise.
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