Book ID: 91858
HOBHOUSE, Penelope
In Search of Paradise: Great Gardens of the World. 2006. 200 illustr. 272 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
This book is a survey of the great gardens of the world, presentedthrough magnificent photographic images and the descriptions of theauthor. Here you will find the oases of the Middle East, the gardens ofof Chinese scholars, Japanese sages and Renaissance humanists, Frenchbaroque gardens, the English landscape garden of Capability Brown andhis 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.