The Wildest Place on Earth : Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness /

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JOHN HANSON MITCHELL is the author of five books based on a single square mile known as Scratch Flat, as well as two travel books and the biography of the early African American landscape photographer Robert A. Gilbert. A winner of the John Burroughs Award for his nature essays, Mitchell was founder...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, John Hanson
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mitchell, John Hanson.
Wilderness (Theology)
Maze gardens.
GARDENING / General
GARDENING > Landscape.
GARDENING > Garden Design.
ARCHITECTURE > Landscape.
maze gardens.
Desert (Theologie)
Labyrinthes (Art des jardins)
Jardins italiens > Philosophie.
Gardens, Italian > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Prologue; 1. Contact; 2. The Great Forest; 3. The Garden in the Woods; 4. In a Green Shade; 5. The Genteel Romantics; 6. Italian Reveries; 7. Into the Wild; 8. The Italian Debt; 9. The Cathedral in the Pines; 10. The Fate of Earth; 11. Backyard Serengeti; Epilogue: The Persistence of Pan.

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