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Author Mitchell, John Hanson

Title The Wildest place on earth : italian gardens and the invention of wilderness / John Hanson Mitchell
Published Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England, 2015
©2015

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Contents 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
Summary 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
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Subject Mitchell, John Hanson
SUBJECT Mitchell, John Hanson fast
Subject Gardens, Italian -- Philosophy
Maze gardens.
Wilderness (Theology)
maze gardens.
ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape.
GARDENING -- Garden Design.
GARDENING -- Landscape.
GARDENING / General
Maze gardens
Wilderness (Theology)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014955380
ISBN 9781611687743
1611687748