A Passion For Trees by Maggie Campbell-Culver
Sylva was presented to the Royal Society to promote the planting of timber trees 'for the supply of the Navy, the employment and advantage of the poor as well as the ornamenting of the nation.' He was responsible for the first great raft of tree-planting and for a great influx of tree introductions to Britain.
"A Passion for Trees is beautifully illustrated with paintings and sumptuous botanical drawings" -- Andrea Wulf * Guardian *
"Well-designed and knowledgeable." * London Review of Books *
"Treat A Passion for Trees like a stroll through the woods in the company of a great man." * Manchester Evening News *
". . . a timely tercentennial reassessment . . . beautifully illustrated and evocatively, if discursively, written, taking the reader into Evelyn's world but also persuasively arguing for his role as a pioneer environmentalist still relevant today . . . [Campbell-Culver] makes a convincing case for John Evelyn as the transitional figure between the order of the Renaissance garden and the naturalistic eighteenth-century landscape movement." -- Wesley Kerr * Times Literary Supplement *
"Well-designed and knowledgeable." * London Review of Books *
"Treat A Passion for Trees like a stroll through the woods in the company of a great man." * Manchester Evening News *
". . . a timely tercentennial reassessment . . . beautifully illustrated and evocatively, if discursively, written, taking the reader into Evelyn's world but also persuasively arguing for his role as a pioneer environmentalist still relevant today . . . [Campbell-Culver] makes a convincing case for John Evelyn as the transitional figure between the order of the Renaissance garden and the naturalistic eighteenth-century landscape movement." -- Wesley Kerr * Times Literary Supplement *
Maggie Campbell-Culver is an editor of the new edition of The Oxford Companion to Gardens and writes regularly for the Eden Friends Magazine, Historic Garden Review, the Saturday Telegraph and NCCPG Journal. She has been a member of the Garden History Society for twenty years and of the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens since its inception. She managed the running and restoration of Mount Edgcumbe, the Grade 1 Historic Garden overlooking Plymouth Sound. She was a founder member of the Garden Trust Movement and Vice-chairman of the Cornwall Gardens Trust. She was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 2001. Maggie danced as a teenager with the Ballet Rambert, then studied garden history and worked on the excavation of Fishbourne Roman Palace in Sussex before moving to Cornwall and self-sufficiency in 1974. While living near Bodmin she was heavily involved with the Wadebridge Bookshop. She now lives in Brittany with her husband Michael.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781903919477 |
| ISBN 10 | 1903919479 |
| Title | A Passion For Trees |
| Author | Maggie Campbell-Culver |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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