This book will provide a new perspective on the way we garden, why we garden and what it means for us. Full of fascinating characters and vignettes -- from ancient Greeks to suffragettes, from eccentric military men to Catholics in hiding from persecution -- The Pursuit of Paradise looks into how society's changes have altered our views of gardening, who does it, and how we do it. What drives people to risk their lives in search of a rare Himalayan flower? Why are so many gardeners homosexual? How did gardening become a respectable career for women? When did looking at other people's gardens become a national British pastime? Using particular gardens to lead into themes like power, refuge, female emancipation, distribution of wealth and fashion, Jane Brown presents a history of the nation through its most popular national pursuit. It will be essential reading for the horticulturally impassioned for years to come.

The Pursuit of Paradise: A Social History of Gardens and Gardening

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Jane Brown

Gardening & Landscape Design

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

My Darling Heriott: Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile

Biographies & Memoirs

The Art and Architecture of English Gardens

Rizzoli

Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Rupert Brooke, Carrington and L.P. Hartley - and the story of the places that inspired them. Five people famous for their books, art and uncoventional lifestyles in the first half of the 20th century. And five people who were drawn towards special rural landscapes that informed their work with a startling intensity. From their cherished childhood paradises via the clipped lawns of Cambridge to country retreats in Sussex, Jane Brown describes the symbolic importance of the English lanscape when it blends with the creative imagination.

Spirits of place: Five famous lives in their landscape

Viking Adult

Gardens of a Golden Afternoon: The Story of a Partnership:Edwin Lutyens And Gertrude Jekyll

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Allen Lane.

Lanning Roper & His Garden

Traces the history of British landscape design, shows gardens for each period, and discusses important architects

Miss Gertrude Jekyll: Gardener, 1843-1932 (Catalogue)

Architectural Association Publications

Loved, hated, revered, scorned, real, imagined: this is Los Angeles. Looking at Los Angeles is a fascinating journey into the center of the city's heart and soul. Pictured within its pages is a Los Angeles of powerful dreams and startling realities. Editors Marla Hamburg Kennedy and Ben Stiller have gathered pictorial representations of Los Angeles from the last three-quarters of a century, resulting in this selection of more than 200 stunning, beautifully reproduced color and duotone depictions of the city from different eras and different points of view. Along with the carefully chosen images by approximately 100 photographers who have time again turned to Los Angeles for inspiration, a preface and foreword by the editors describe their great affection for the city, while David L. Ulin's essay offers a critical and loving look at Los Angeles. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Los Angeles Conservancy, and the organization provides an essay about the importance of saving this city's rich architectural heritage. Looking at Los Angeles is at once a lesson in history, architecture, style, and culture, and a remarkable visual and written tribute to one of America's greatest cities. Includes photographs by: Robert Adams, John Baldessari, William Claxton, Will Connell, Joe Deal, John Divola, William Eggleston, Sam Fentress, Anthony Friedkin, John Humble, Dennis Keeley, Florian Maier-Aichen, Grant Mudford, Karin A. Mueller, Catherine Opie, Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore, Julius Schulman, Joel Sternfeld, Timothy Street-Porter, John Swope, Andy Warhol, Julian Wasser, Robert Weingarten, Garry Winogrand, Max Yavno and others.

Looking At Los Angeles

Craig Krull

Photography & Video

Metropolis Books

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