Botanic Gardens

by Monem, Nadine Kathe

• ISBN13: 9781904772729
• ISBN10: 1904772722
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-01
• Publisher: Black Dog Pub Ltd

Summary

Botanic Gardens: A Living History is a comprehensive and practical guide to the world's foremost botanical gardens. This visually stunning book unearths the fascinating history of the botanical garden. Global in scope Botanic Gardens explores gardens including: The US Botanic Garden in Washington, The Royal Botanic Gardens in London as well as gardens in New York, Chicago, Denver, Sydney and Montreal. Botanic Gardens draws on a range of iconographic and textual treasures including photography, architectural plans, drawings, scientific journals and personal accounts. The key personalities involved in the establishment of the gardens are profiled -- an extraordinary catalog of explorers, scientists, noblemen, botanists, visionaries and dreamers. The architecture of the gardens is explored and the gardens' relationship with the wider world is also dealt with in depth. Featuring text by a range of writers including historians, scientists, horticulturalists and architects, this book is the only trully comprehensive and up to date survey of these institutions. Culturally important, Botanic Gardens is a vibrant beautiful book.

Table of Contents

The history of the botanic garden	p. 10
The changing face of the botanic garden	p. 62
The botanic garden	p. 126
The botanical garden of the University of Pisa	p. 128
Hortus Botanicus Leiden	p. 131
Chelsea Physic Garden	p. 135
British Colonial Botanical Gardens in the West Indies	p. 138
The Cambridge University Botanic Garden	p. 142
United States Botanic Garden	p. 145
The New York Botanic Garden	p. 149
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden	p. 153
Where art and science meet	p. 204
Biographies	p. 282
Bibliography	p. 284
Index	p. 288
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.