Writing The Garden by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Gardening has always attracted devotedly literate practitioners; people who like to dig, it would appear, also like to write. And many of them write exceedingly well. Focusing on gardeners' words about the art of gardening, and ranging in time and place from Enlightenment France to modern-day New York, Writing the Garden brings together a diverse array of authors including Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Roy Strong. For the most part they are not professional landscape designers or how-to horticulturalists, but rather hands-on gardeners who write with their own gardens in full view.
'Her book is a delight to have and to hold, small enough to slip into a pocket to read in the garden' Times Literary Supplement 'In this thoughtful, personal, and embracing consideration of garden writing, garden historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers selects and discusses the best garden writers, picking delightful examples that span two countries' Countryside La Vie
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. A resident of New York City since 1964, Rogers was the first person to hold the title of Central Park Administrator, and she was the founding president of the Central Park Conservancy. Rogers has won numerous awards for her work as a writer and landscape preservationist.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780749016906 |
| ISBN 10 | 0749016906 |
| Title | Writing The Garden |
| Author | Elizabeth Barlow Rogers |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Allison & Busby |
| Year published | 2014-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of American Horticultural Society's Book Award 2012 |
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