The Pursuit of Paradise A Social History of Gardens and Gardening. Jane Brown
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Product details
1999. Uncorrected proof. Soft cover, with carton support, 377 pages. Very good condition: tightly bound, neat and clean. The cover shows minor signs of use. Under 1kg.
The book has eleven chapters:
1. The Purest of Human Pleasure
2. The Secret Garden
3. The Military Garden
4. Emancipated Gardeners
5. The Rise of the Small Garden
6. Acquiring Eden
7. Science Lends a Hand
8. Its Clever, but is it Art?
9. Labour of Love
10. The Formative Garden
11. Future Gardens
"I found The Military Garden most interesting as it hadnt dawned on me that so many gardening terms come from the arts of warfare cordon, earthing-up, trench, bastion, palisade, covered way and more. It seems that when generals were at a loose end after wars were won, they went home and started to plan gardens where they could keep everything under control, just as they had commanded their men. All that topiary stood in for regiments of men!"