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Author: Barbara Segall
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
ISBN: 9780711218949
Size: 50.13 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Book Description: This work highlights 20 of the world's most inspiring coastal gardens. The author provides all the background information needed to make a successful seaside garden, profiling more than 150 plants that thrive in coastal conditions and explaining specialist gardening techniques. Photographs show the gardens in their full glory, while Barbara Segall reveals the secrets behind the magic in her detailed descriptions.

Author: Massimo Listri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 65.96 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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Book Description: The Mediterranean attracts visitors from around the world thanks to its sundrenched landscape, rich history, enticing traditions and welcoming lifestyles. This book showcases a sumptuous selection of some of the most beautiful houses found around the Mediterranean, captured by the lens of renowned architecture photographer Massimo Listri. Listri's stunning photographs vary between sweeping panoramas of the houses in their glorious settings to close-ups of specific rooms, furniture and design details. These houses provide glorious fodder for dreaming as well as a concrete source of inspiration for creating one's own personal style.

Author: Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611171776
Size: 54.92 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Book Description: From Italy to Switzerland, Germany to Spain, and Philadelphia to New Orleans, Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq describes the beauty of different historic gardens in this collection of essays. A Grand Tour of Gardens: Traveling in Beauty through Western Europe and the United States showcases her excursions to historic gardens around the world. Through her own experiences LeClercq enables the garden adventurer to anticipate the world of color, design, and horticulture in each magnificent garden described here. The essays in A Grand Tour of Gardens are filled with history, plant lore, anecdote, and high-society gossip of the most famous public and private gardens of the United States and Europe. A Grand Tour of Gardens begins with an essay by LeClercq's mother, the late Emily Whaley. "Gardening as Art and Entertainment" discusses Whaley's iconic garden on Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina, and its other gardens that she knew and describes here. For every garden visited, LeClercq vividly details new combinations of horticultural art forms and enlivens the reader's imagination. Traveling to Claude Monet's Garden at Giverny, France; Frederick Law Olmstead's Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina; and the garden of Beatrice Rothschild on the Cote d'Azure, LeClercq features these gardens in words and illustrations. A Grand Tour of Gardens serves as a roadmap for viewing gardens worldwide and provides a set of rubrics for assessing design elements of each garden. The tips shared in these essays provide a visitor with the tools for deciphering the "language" of a nursery. In eight fun-filled chapters, A Grand Tour of Gardens takes the reader on a worldwide visit to the discovery of historic gardens as a source of art, inspiration, and entertainment.

Author: Cyril Crossland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108016014
Size: 70.95 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Book Description: A 1913 scientific survey of coral reefs on the Red Sea coast, containing vivid descriptions of Sudanese landscapes and people.

Author: Alice Lounsberry
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780469242135
Size: 14.82 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Book Description: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Bunny Williams
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1613129580
Size: 49.60 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Book Description: Author and renowned designer Bunny Williams has been at the top of the interior design world for more than 40 years. Her new book invites readers to explore La Colina, Williams’s lovely Caribbean retreat tucked into lush, tropical gardens by the sea. The book explores every facet of the property—from outdoor rooms and garden plantings and design to the delightful, island-living luxury of the villa’s interiors, furnishings, and collections. Woven into each chapter are essays written by friends who have visited the property: Gil Schafer details the villa’s architecture; Page Dickey tours the gardens; Roxana Robinson offers a peek at a weekend stay; Angus Wilkie discusses the delights of collecting; and Jane Garmey revels in the pleasures of cooking, food, and friends. Also available from Bunny Williams: An Affair with a House and Bunny Williams On Garden Style.

Author: Zoological Society of London. Gardens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 56.39 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 59
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Size: 60.98 MB
Format: PDF
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Essex Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 34.85 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: S. Yamashiro
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137463309
Size: 57.28 MB
Format: PDF
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 125
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Book Description: Implementing a never-before-seen approach to sea literature, American Sea Literature: Seascapes, Beach Narratives, and Underwater Explorations explores the role of American maritime activities and their cultural representations in literature. Differentiating between the 'terrestrial' and 'oceanic' as concepts, Shin Yamashiro divides sea literature into three categories: literature on the sea, by the sea, and beneath the sea. Discussing both canonical works and new books on scuba diving, deep-sea explorations, and surfing, this fascinating study recognizes sea literature's unique influence on American history.