Author: Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512821586
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.
Medici Gardens
Author: Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512821586
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512821586
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.
Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big game hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big game hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Seedfolks
Author: Paul Fleischman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062283685
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
ALA Best Book for Young Adults ∙ School Library Journal Best Book ∙ Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ IRA/CBC Children's Choice ∙ NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot. Looking down on the immigrant-filled neighborhood, a Romanian woman watches suspiciously. A school janitor gets involved, then a Guatemalan family. Then muscle-bound Curtis, trying to win back Lateesha. Pregnant Maricela. Amir from India. A sense of community sprouts and spreads. Newbery-winning author Paul Fleischman uses thirteen speakers to bring to life a community garden's founding and first year. The book's short length, diverse cast, and suitability for adults as well as children have led it to be used in countless one-book reads in schools and in cities across the country. Seedfolks has been drawn upon to teach tolerance, read in ESL classes, promoted by urban gardeners, and performed in schools and on stages from South Africa to Broadway. The book's many tributaries—from the author's immigrant grandfather to his adoption of two brothers from Mexico—are detailed in his forthcoming memoir, No Map, Great Trip: A Young Writer's Road to Page One. "The size of this slim volume belies the profound message of hope it contains." —Christian Science Monitor And don’t miss Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, the Newbery Medal-winning poetry collection!
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062283685
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
ALA Best Book for Young Adults ∙ School Library Journal Best Book ∙ Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ IRA/CBC Children's Choice ∙ NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot. Looking down on the immigrant-filled neighborhood, a Romanian woman watches suspiciously. A school janitor gets involved, then a Guatemalan family. Then muscle-bound Curtis, trying to win back Lateesha. Pregnant Maricela. Amir from India. A sense of community sprouts and spreads. Newbery-winning author Paul Fleischman uses thirteen speakers to bring to life a community garden's founding and first year. The book's short length, diverse cast, and suitability for adults as well as children have led it to be used in countless one-book reads in schools and in cities across the country. Seedfolks has been drawn upon to teach tolerance, read in ESL classes, promoted by urban gardeners, and performed in schools and on stages from South Africa to Broadway. The book's many tributaries—from the author's immigrant grandfather to his adoption of two brothers from Mexico—are detailed in his forthcoming memoir, No Map, Great Trip: A Young Writer's Road to Page One. "The size of this slim volume belies the profound message of hope it contains." —Christian Science Monitor And don’t miss Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, the Newbery Medal-winning poetry collection!
The Italian Renaissance Garden
Author: Claudia Lazzaro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608078311
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608078311
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens
Author: Vivian Russell
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
ISBN: 9780821223970
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This elegant new volume combines Edith Wharton's sensual prose tour of Italy's most gorgeous gardens with stunning photographs that capture these lush spaces in all their past, present, and enduringly haunting beauty. Wharton devotees, gardeners, and Italophiles alike will delight in following in the writer's turn-of-the-century footsteps. 30 historical bandw photos. 180 modern color photos.
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
ISBN: 9780821223970
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This elegant new volume combines Edith Wharton's sensual prose tour of Italy's most gorgeous gardens with stunning photographs that capture these lush spaces in all their past, present, and enduringly haunting beauty. Wharton devotees, gardeners, and Italophiles alike will delight in following in the writer's turn-of-the-century footsteps. 30 historical bandw photos. 180 modern color photos.
Paradise of Exiles
Author: Katie Campbell
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780711229563
Category : American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
DIVThe crumbling, abandoned villas above Florence proved irresistible to an eccentric colony of late 19th-century English and American expatriates. This entertaining book features 20 of these characters and the unusual gardens they created. They include bereaved philosopher Charles Strong, whose Rockefeller in-laws financed his villa retreat; crossdressing English essayist Violet Paget; beautiful Serbian Princess Jeanne Ghika, who lived in seclusion with her American companion Miss Blood; and eccentric English romance writer Ouida. These Anglo-Florentines injected new life into Tuscany's decrepit gardens, touring the countryside for inspiration and trawling old libraries for treatises and manuals. Some smothered their walls with scented climbers, replaced gravel terraces with emerald lawns, and stuffed box parterres with bright bedding plants and orchards with exotic shrubs. Gorgeous photography, archival images, literary references, and gossipy tidbits bring this irresistible intersection of bohemia and nature to life.
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780711229563
Category : American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
DIVThe crumbling, abandoned villas above Florence proved irresistible to an eccentric colony of late 19th-century English and American expatriates. This entertaining book features 20 of these characters and the unusual gardens they created. They include bereaved philosopher Charles Strong, whose Rockefeller in-laws financed his villa retreat; crossdressing English essayist Violet Paget; beautiful Serbian Princess Jeanne Ghika, who lived in seclusion with her American companion Miss Blood; and eccentric English romance writer Ouida. These Anglo-Florentines injected new life into Tuscany's decrepit gardens, touring the countryside for inspiration and trawling old libraries for treatises and manuals. Some smothered their walls with scented climbers, replaced gravel terraces with emerald lawns, and stuffed box parterres with bright bedding plants and orchards with exotic shrubs. Gorgeous photography, archival images, literary references, and gossipy tidbits bring this irresistible intersection of bohemia and nature to life.
Garden History of Georgia, 1733-1933
Author: Hattie C. Rainwater
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820353012
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
"This book was originally published in 1933 by the Peachtree Garden Club. Reprinted in 1976 by the Garden Club of Georgia, Inc."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820353012
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
"This book was originally published in 1933 by the Peachtree Garden Club. Reprinted in 1976 by the Garden Club of Georgia, Inc."
Landscaping the American Dream
Author: James J. Yoch
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Florence Yoch's commissions ranged from Pasadena estates to Carmel cottages, and she created sets for films such as Gone with the Wind.
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Florence Yoch's commissions ranged from Pasadena estates to Carmel cottages, and she created sets for films such as Gone with the Wind.
Gardening and Beyond
Author: Florence Bellis
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 9781604691078
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Out of a lifetime of working with plants—including her development of the famous Barnhaven primroses—the late Florence Bellis distilled these reflections on the interrelationships of living things. Her language is simple and poetic; her sensitivity to the world of her seaside garden, an inspiration.
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 9781604691078
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Out of a lifetime of working with plants—including her development of the famous Barnhaven primroses—the late Florence Bellis distilled these reflections on the interrelationships of living things. Her language is simple and poetic; her sensitivity to the world of her seaside garden, an inspiration.
Italian Gardens
Author: George Samuel Elgood
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019213353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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 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. 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.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019213353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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 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. 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.