Botanic Gardens: A Living History is a comprehensive and practical guide to the world's foremost botanical gardens. This visually stunning book unearths the fascinating history of the botanical garden. Global in scope Botanic Gardens explores gardens including: The US Botanic Garden in Washington, The Royal Botanic Gardens in London as well as gardens in New York, Chicago, Denver, Sydney and Montreal. Botanic Gardens draws on a range of iconographic and textual treasures including photography, architectural plans, drawings, ...
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Botanic Gardens: A Living History is a comprehensive and practical guide to the world's foremost botanical gardens. This visually stunning book unearths the fascinating history of the botanical garden. Global in scope Botanic Gardens explores gardens including: The US Botanic Garden in Washington, The Royal Botanic Gardens in London as well as gardens in New York, Chicago, Denver, Sydney and Montreal. Botanic Gardens draws on a range of iconographic and textual treasures including photography, architectural plans, drawings, scientific journals and personal accounts. The key personalities involved in the establishment of the gardens are profiled -- an extraordinary catalog of explorers, scientists, noblemen, botanists, visionaries and dreamers. The architecture of the gardens is explored and the gardens' relationship with the wider world is also dealt with in depth. Featuring text by a range of writers including historians, scientists, horticulturalists and architects, this book is the only trully comprehensive and up to date survey of these institutions. Culturally important, Botanic Gardens is a vibrant beautiful book.
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