John Hanson Mitchell

Broschiertes Buch

The Wildest Place on Earth

Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness

Beschreibung

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

Autor

JOHN HANSON MITCHELL is the author of five books based on a single square mile known as Scratch Flat, as well as two travel books and the biography of the early African American landscape photographer Robert A. Gilbert. A winner of the John Burroughs Award for his nature essays, Mitchell was founder and editor of Sanctuary magazine, published by the Massachusetts Audubon Society. In 2000 he won the New England Book Award in nonfiction for his Scratch Flat series. He lives in Littleton, Massachusetts, the location of Scratch Flat.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of New England
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781611687200
• ISBN-10: 1611687209
• Artikelnr.: 41799960