Author: Michael Comport GrabhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Garden Interests of Madeira
Author: Michael Comport GrabhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Gardens of Madeira
Author: Gerald LuckhurstPublisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711230323
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For centuries the island gardens of Madeira were at the crossroads of the world: as a halfway house between the tropics and the old continent, Madeira received plants from far-flung empires and accommodated ideas from both north and south. Its streets and squares are filled with magnificent jacarandas, flame-trees, and rosewoods, while its waterways are covered by trellises of bougainvillea. This book opens with an introduction describing the discovery and development of the island and its earliest gardens, the role of Portuguese aristocrats and British wine merchants in creating the country estates known as quintas, and the extensive travel literature of early tourists. The book then delivers essential background information on how the climate and landscape of Madeira have allowed the island’s unique flora to flourish. The gardens themselves are divided according to type, public or private, historic or modern, and all 24 are in or around the capital, Funchal. A few non-garden areas have been included to introduce the wild flora and landscape of Madeira, certainly of interest to garden lovers.
The Gardener's Year Book
Author: Catalogue
Author: Dulau & Co., ltd., Booksellers, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Gardens of Madeira—Gardens of the World
Author: Beata Elżbieta CieszyńskaPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527551210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The volume Gardens of Madeira – Gardens of the World. Contemporary Approaches displays present tendencies in calling upon the idea of gardens, being a wide-range approach to their literary, sociological and cultural representations. The book`s four parts: “Madeira: A Garden in the Sea?”, “Gardens as Temporal and Spatial Category. Cultural and Literary Approaches”, “Gardens as an Expression. Socio-cultural Perspectives” and “Re-Creating the Archetypal Garden – Discourses and Practices” refer to vast geographical and cultural areas, starting with the very complex sample of the overseas-yet-European Island of Madeira, and then joining the exemplification material from historical and contemporary European communities (with some luso-centric accents), including examples from the less known Slavonic and Eastern European countries. Those European issues are confronted with various non-European societies such as from Africa, Asia, and both Americas. Gardens evoke and express in many ways the present human condition, and - as such a process goes on - this book provides proposals for patterns to connect them to the modern and post-modern rules of self defining, reading the Other, interpreting world/national/cultural literatures, as well as to the various attempts to introduce the idea of gardens into the basic spatial and temporal aspects of contemporary communities. It also demonstrates the theoretical and practical attempts to project our “gardens` dependence” on to one of the essentials for contemporary societies which are multicultural, urbanised, technologically equipped and dependent, but which still are keen on reading and constructing paradises as environmental and cultural spaces for both asylum and encounter. The huge advantage of the book is showing to scholars and the wider public how discourses from the past meet with the quests of both the Humanities and the Sciences for gardening inspirations, not only for the sake of the today’s societies, but also when projecting the future of the Earth.
Journal
Author: New York Botanical GardenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
The Garden
Author: Technical Book Review Index
Author: Pioneer Plant Geography
Author: W. B. TurrillPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401767580
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description