Book ID: 25039
BUCHAN, Ursula
An Anthology of Garden Writing. The Lives and Works of Five Great Gardeners. 1986. 20 colour plates. 52 black & white figures. 191 p. gr8vo. Cloth.
Garden writing of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is a major influence on modern gardening. This book considers the works of five major authors of this period, showing how they viewed those areas of gardening which are still so familiar today, and some which, with the passage of time, have become less so.
The author has selected the most invigorating, illuminating and often humorous prose of these legendary writers and has organised the book so as to create a fascinating anthology of their familiar as well as their lesser-known writings for today's gardener.