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Gordon Campbell

Garden History: A Very Short Introduction

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Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gardens have inspired, comforted, and sustained people from all walks of life, and since the Garden of Eden many iconic gardens have inspired great artists, poets, musicians, and writers.In this Very Short Introduction, Gordon Campbell embraces gardens in all their splendour, from parks, and fruit and vegetable gardens to ornamental gardens, and takes the reader on a globe-trotting historical journey through iconic and cultural signposts of gardens fr… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-100418-6
  • EAN: 9780191004186
  • Produktnummer: 31778967
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 160 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'943 KB
  • Abbildungen: 15 black and white images

Über den Autor


Gordon Campbell is Fellow in Renaissance Studies at University of Leicester, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. In January 2012, he was presented with the Longman History Today Trustees Award for his life time contribution to history. He has authored and edited several books on literature, art, history, and biography, including the Bible: The Story of the King James Version (OUP, 2010) and The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to OrnamentalGnome (OUP, 2013). He has travelled widely in scores of countries, visiting gardens all over the world.

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