The Wildest place on earth : italian gardens and the invention of wilderness / / John Hanson Mitchell ; drawings by James A. Mitchell
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| Autore: |
Mitchell John Hanson
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| Titolo: |
The Wildest place on earth : italian gardens and the invention of wilderness / / John Hanson Mitchell ; drawings by James A. Mitchell
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| Pubblicazione: | Hanover, New Hampshire ; ; London, [England] : , : University Press of New England, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (214 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 712.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Gardens, Italian - Philosophy |
| Gardens, Italian | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | MitchellJames A. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Wildest place on earth |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821321803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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