Gardens of Eden: Selected Poems
In the early twentieth century, luminaries such as Grosvenor Atterbury, Charles W. Leavitt Jr., and Frederick Law Olmsted designed dozens of high-end, carefully conceived communities on New York's Long Island.Gardens of Eden covers the ...
Spanning time and continents, this book visits the glorious paradise gardens of ancient Persia, the restrained gardens of Italy and the Buddhist-inspired landscapes of China and Japan.
This book looks at the significance of the countryside and landscape in early British socialism, and at a wide range of examples of socialist activities in the open air.
Illustrated by more than five hundred photographs, offers garden lovers a tour of fifty of the world's most beautiful gardens.