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Description |
"Great Gardens of the World" is a survey of the great gardens of the world,
presented through magnificent photographic images and the descriptions of
legendary garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse. Here you will find
the oases of the Middle East, the gardens of Chinese scholars, Japanese
sages and Renaissance humanists, French baroque gardens, the English
landscape garden of Capability Brown and his followers. Here too are the
gardens of the great modern designers, among them Roberto Burle Marx,
Fernando Caruncho, Dan Kiley, John Brookes and James van Sweden. |
