The gardener's year / / Karel Capek ; illustrated by Josef Capek

• Autore: Čapek Karel <1890-1938, >
• Pubblicazione: London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Continuum, , 2003; ©2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 635
• Soggetto topico: Gardening
• Persona (resp. second.): CapekJosef
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Translator's note; How Gardens Are Laid Out; How a Gardener Comes into Being; The Gardener's January; Seeds; The Gardener's February; On the Art of Gardening; The Gardener's March; Buds; The Gardener's April; Festival; The Gardener's May; Blessed Rain; The Gardener's June; On Vegetable Growers; The Gardener's July; A Botanical Chapter; The Gardener's August; On Cactus Growers; The Gardener's September; Soil; The Gardener's October; On the Beauties of Autumn; The Gardener's November; Preparation; The Gardener's December; On the Gardening Life; Explanatory Notes; Afterword ; A Chronology of Karel CapekA Brief Chronology of Josef Capek
• Sommario/riassunto: It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant., nor the faintest interest in acquiring one. The GardenerGÇÖs Year is a charismatic product of Karel CapekGÇÖs genius: amusing, informative, and full of a quizzical interest in people, animals and plants.In this new version, Geoffrey Newsome GÇôthe highly acclaimed translator of CapekGÇÖs witty Letters from England GÇôhas captured the grace and irony of the original Czech, to produce a volume that
• Titolo autorizzato: The gardener's year
• ISBN: 1-283-20785-0; 9786613207852; 1-4411-9533-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789683803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II