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English Garden Eccentrics

2022-04-26 Architecture
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Release : 2022-04-26
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis English Garden Eccentrics by : Todd Longstaffe-Gowan

Download or read book English Garden Eccentrics written by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan. This book was released on 2022-04-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original examination of a series of unique gardens made by English eccentrics from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries In his new book, Todd Longstaffe-Gowan looks at a series of unique gardens made by English eccentrics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their unusual creators--from the superstitious antiquary William Stukeley (d.1765), to the pleasure-ground proprietor Jonathan Tyers (d.1767), and the bird-loving Lady Reade (d.1811)--built miniature mountains, shaped topiary, collected animals, excavated caves, and assembled architectural fragments to realize their gardens in a way that was, and sometimes still is, thought to be excessive. Bringing together garden and landscape history with cultural history and biography, English Garden Eccentrics examines what it is about the gardener and his or her creation that can be seen as eccentric and analyzes an area of garden history that has scarcely been previously explored: gardens seen as expressions of the singular character of their makers, and therefore functioning, in effect, as a form of autobiography. This lively and accessible book calls on gardeners today to learn from example and dare to be eccentric.

English Eccentrics

2022-08-16 Fiction
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Release : 2022-08-16
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis English Eccentrics by : Edith Sitwell

Download or read book English Eccentrics written by Edith Sitwell. This book was released on 2022-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "English Eccentrics" by Edith Sitwell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

A Little History of British Gardening

2012-10-31 Gardening
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Release : 2012-10-31
Genre : Gardening
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Book Rating : 963/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Little History of British Gardening by : Jenny Uglow

Download or read book A Little History of British Gardening written by Jenny Uglow. This book was released on 2012-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get out in your garden and discover the history hidden in the hedges. Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did potatoes seem really, really weird when they arrived on our shores? Drawn from Jenny Uglow's own love for plants, this lively 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for ornamental grasses and 'outdoor rooms' today. Tracking down the ordinary folk who worked the earth - from weeding women to florists - as well as aristocrats and grand designers and famous plant-hunters, A Little History of British Gardening is brought to life by gorgeously vivid illustrations and Uglow's insightful wisdom. Not only dealing with flowery meads, grottoes and vistas, landscapes and ha-has, parks and allotments, Uglow explains, for example, how the Tudors made their curious knots; how housewives used herbs to stop freckles; how the suburbs dug for victory in World War II. With a brief guide to particular historic or evocative gardens open to the public, this is a book to put in your pocket when planning a crisp, winter's day out - but also to read in your armchair with a well-earned glass of red, after a hard day's graft in your own garden. 'Enchanting, stirringly evocative and fascinating' Daily Mail 'This book will be a joy for any gardener' Independent

English Eccentrics and Eccentricities

1875 Eccentrics and eccentricities
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Release : 1875
Genre : Eccentrics and eccentricities
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Book Synopsis English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by : John Timbs

Download or read book English Eccentrics and Eccentricities written by John Timbs. This book was released on 1875. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eccentric Britain

2005 Reference
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Release : 2005
Genre : Reference
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Book Synopsis Eccentric Britain by : Benedict Le Vay

Download or read book Eccentric Britain written by Benedict Le Vay. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful romp around the British Isles searching out the mad marquess, the eccentric earl, the barmy baron, and the daft duke and gathering a fair collection of crackpot inventors, weird adventurers and fascinatingly and not to mention insanely curious customs along the way. All of which make this rainy little island home to that remarkable breed of individual - the British eccentric.This expanded book still doesn't tell you where Stonehenge is, but it does tell you where ten spookier stone circles are where there will be no crowds, no admission charges and no parking problems... This is a book for the intelligent, humorous, curious tourist who doesn't go with the crowd. It is also a great armchair read that has been known to have readers weeping with mirth at the weird ways of the British.

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