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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821321803321

Autore

Mitchell John Hanson

Titolo

The Wildest place on earth : italian gardens and the invention of wilderness / / John Hanson Mitchell ; drawings by James A. Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, New Hampshire ; ; London, [England] : , : University Press of New England, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Disciplina

712.01

Soggetti

Gardens, Italian - Philosophy

Gardens, Italian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Prologue; 1. Contact; 2. The Great Forest; 3. The Garden in the Woods; 4. In a Green Shade; 5. The Genteel Romantics; 6. Italian Reveries; 7. Into the Wild; 8. The Italian Debt; 9. The Cathedral in the Pines; 10. The Fate of Earth; 11. Backyard Serengeti; Epilogue: The Persistence of Pan

Sommario/riassunto

The unlikely story of how formal Italian Renaissance gardens encouraged the preservation of the American wilderness