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Book The English Garden at Night

Download or read book The English Garden at Night written by Linda Rutenberg and published by . This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rutenberg's photographs are taken after midnight, creating a vision of stillness and mystery, a soliloquy of shadow and light emanating from leaves and flowers, hedgerows and trees.

Book The English Garden at Night

Download or read book The English Garden at Night written by Linda Rutenberg and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rutenberg's photographs are taken after midnight, creating a vision of stillness and mystery, a soliloquy of shadow and light emanating from leaves and flowers, hedgerows and trees.

Book Tom s Midnight Garden

Download or read book Tom s Midnight Garden written by Philippa Pearce and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tom is not prepared for what is about to happen when he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him does not exist."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Book The English Garden

Download or read book The English Garden written by William Mason and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Garden

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Quest-Ritson
  • Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781567922646
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book The English Garden written by Charles Quest-Ritson and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2003 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociohistorical overview of English gardening trends.

Book How to Read an English Garden

Download or read book How to Read an English Garden written by Andrew Eburne and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Taylor, author of the best-selling How to Read a Church, joins forces with garden historian Andrew Eburne to produce the ultimate guide to historic and modern gardens. Gardens are amongst the fastest-growing visitor attractions today - in the UK alone 15 million people will visit a garden this year. How to Read an English Garden is the essential book for every garden lover. It provides an account of the different elements of gardens of all ages and explains their meaning and their history: here, you'll find the answer to such questions as: when were tulips introduced into our gardens, and what was 'tulip-mania'? What is a knot-garden, and what was the origin of its design? Who was 'Capability' Brown, and how did he get his name? Why are mazes such a common feature in English garden design? In addition, the book explains how lawns, flowerbeds, trees and ponds came to be a feature not just of grand houses but of gardens everywhere. Among the many subjects covered are: garden design, plant introductions and collectors, kitchen gardens, water gardens, and garden styles from around the world: English, American, Chinese and Moorish to name just a few. Clearly laid out and beautifully illustrated, How to Read an English Garden brings historic and modern gardens to life: a book to accompany garden visitors everywhere, or to be enjoyed and dipped into at home.

Book America   s Romance with the English Garden

Download or read book America s Romance with the English Garden written by Thomas J. Mickey and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of “the year’s best gardening books” by The Spectator (UK, Nov. 2014) The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories—in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America’s Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products. It’s also the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer. Seed and nursery catalogs delivered aspirational images to front doorsteps from California to Maine, and the English garden became the look of America.

Book Bugs that Go Bump in the Night

Download or read book Bugs that Go Bump in the Night written by David A. Carter and published by Orchard. This book was released on 1996 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open this book...if you dare All kinds of creepy bugs will pop up everywhere Surprise on last page

Book Alpine Flowers for English Gardens

Download or read book Alpine Flowers for English Gardens written by William Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Garden Magazine

Download or read book The Garden Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Download or read book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil written by John Berendt and published by Random House. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.

Book A Taste and Tour of Northeast Country Inns

Download or read book A Taste and Tour of Northeast Country Inns written by Jacqueline W. Simak and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 200 recipes from over 100 Country Inns, plus historical and personal information about the inns and their keepers.

Book The English Garden Mystery

Download or read book The English Garden Mystery written by Dan Andriacco and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "Old Money" Family Meets Murder Shakespearean scholar and philanthropist Ezra Bainbridge, patriarch of one of Erin, Ohio's wealthiest old families, lives quietly and happily at his Stratford Court compound with three triplet daughters until accusations of elder abuse roil the family. Amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe and his friend Jeff Cody are drawn into the controversy as objective observers but are soon ensnared in a puzzling series of horrendous murders, each one of which is marked by the presence of a flower. It takes McCabe and Cody to figure out the meaning of these floral tributes, but not until it is almost too late. At the center Stratford Court, and of the mystery, is an English garden around which stand the homes of Ezra Bainbridge and his daughters, all of them named for Shakespearean characters-Ophelia, the professor; Desdemona, the rebel; and Portia, the social climber. The story finds Erin much changed by the COVID-19 pandemic, with some of our old friends gone forever and others transformed. Readers of the early Ellery Queen mystery novels will find more than a passing similarity to those classics, from The English Garden Mystery title of the novel to the "Challenge to the Reader" at the point in the book where all the clues have been presented.

Book The English Garden     The third edition

Download or read book The English Garden The third edition written by William Mason and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Echo House

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ward Just
  • Publisher : HMH
  • Release : 1997-12-15
  • ISBN : 054752580X
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Echo House written by Ward Just and published by HMH. This book was released on 1997-12-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This family saga from a National Book Award finalist is a “brilliantly orchestrated tale of several generations of Washington, D.C., insiders” (Booklist). In this epic and acutely observed novel, three generations of a family of Washington power brokers vie for influence over the fate of the nation. In the 1930s, Sen. Adolph Behl and his wife, Constance, buy historic mansion Echo House with the vision of transforming it into Washington’s greatest salon—an auspicious base camp from which the senator can launch his “final ascent,” and son Axel can prepare his first. Across decades of secrets, betrayals, victories, and humiliations, the Behl family will fight to remain near the center, and behind the scenes, of American political power—from the New Deal to Watergate and beyond. “A fascinating if ultimately painful fairy tale, complete with . . . a family curse . . . The decline of the Behls represents the decline of Washington from the bright dawn of the American century into the gathering shadows of an alien new millennium.” —The Washington Post “Puts the standard run-of-the-mill Washington novel to shame . . . It is Mr. Just’s intimate portrait of the city that makes his book so convincing.” —TheNew York Times “Will be read in a century’s time by anyone seeking to understand how we lived.” —Detroit Free Press “[Ward’s] stories put him in the category reserved for writers who work far beyond the fashions of the times. . . . Masterpieces of balance, focus, and hidden order.” —Chicago Tribune “He has earned a place on the shelf just below Edith Wharton and Henry James.” —Newsweek

Book The Diary of William Hedges  Esq   afterwards Sir William Hedges   during his Agency in Bengal

Download or read book The Diary of William Hedges Esq afterwards Sir William Hedges during his Agency in Bengal written by Henry Yule and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary is transcribed, with introductory notes, etc. by R. Barlow, and illustrated by 'Copious Extracts from Unpublished Records, etc.' by Colonel Henry Yule. The volume is continued in First Series 75 and 78. The whole work contains: I. The diary, with index.--II. Notices regarding Sir William Hedges, documentary memoirs of Job Charnock, and other biographical and miscellaneous illustrations of the time in India. -III. Documentary contributions to a biography of Thomas Pitt, governor of Fort St. George; with collections on the early history of the company's settlement in Bengal; and on early charts and topography of the Hugli River The supplementary material consists of the 1886 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1887.