The Tree Hunters: How Cult Of Arboretum Transformed Our Landscape Thomas Pakenham Weidenfeld Nicolson Αγγλικά Βιβλία Science Natural History

For Centuries English Country Gentlemen Had Collected Exotic Pictures Their Saloons And Rare Books Libraries By The End Of Seventeenth Century They Begun To Collect Trees Within Space A Few Years Hundreds New Specimen Enriched British Landscape Demand Was High Most Splendid Imports: Maples Tulip From American Colonies Cypresses Cedars Europe Lebanon Oriental Plane Greece Turkey With Its Romantic Associations Plato\ S Academy How Did These Extraordinary Make Way Gardens Britain Ireland? Who Were Scholars Daredevils Combed Old Worlds In Search Green Treasure? What Crimes Commit Price Pay Bring World\ Charismatic Megaflora Home?In This Exuberant History Thomas Pakenham Reveals Marvellous Tales Adventure Discovery Rivalry Passion That Created Modern Σελίδες: 384 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0121 Διαστάσεις: 16 2X16 2Cm