In Search of Paradise

Great Gardens of the World
by Penelope Hobhouse

A magnificent survey of the great gardens of the world, presented in glorious color photographs and in the descriptions of the celebrated garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse. Here you will find the oases of the Middle East, the gardens of Chinese scholars and Renaissance humanists, French baroque gardens and English landscape gardens. Here too are the gardens of the great modern designers, among them Roberto Burle Marx, Fernando Caruncho, John Brookes, and James van Sweden. In Search of Paradise is a superior anthology of garden design masterpieces. Penelope Hobhouse insightfully connects the state of the art as it is practiced today to the landscape landmarks of the past.

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