Publication

2006-09-25 - Frances Lincoln

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

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  • 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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