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In Search of Paradise is a survey of the great gardens of the world, presented through photographic images and the descriptions of the garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse. Here you will find the oases of the Middle East, the gardens of Chinese scholars, Japanese sages and Renaissance humanists, French baroque gardens, the English landscape garden of Capability Brown and his followers. Here too are the gardens of the great modern designers, among them Roberto Burle Marx, Fernando Caruncho, Dan Kiley, John Brookes and James van Sweden. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)712.6Arts & recreation Area planning & landscape architecture Landscape architecture (Landscape design) Private parks and grounds; home gardensLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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