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  • The Tulip

    by Anna Pavord ...
    "A disarming, captivating history of the tulip," a twentieth anniversary edition of the classic New York Times bestseller, featuring new material by the author ( Kirkus Reviews )."Well-spun and densely detailed . . . A chronicle rather than a gardening book." — The New York TimesGreed, desire, anguish,... ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Curious Gardener

    by Anna Pavord ...
    In The Curious Gardener, Anna Pavord brings together in 12 chapters - one from each month of the year - 72 pieces on all aspects of gardening.From what to do in each month and how to get the best from flowers, plants, herbs, fruit and vegetables, through reflections on the weather, soil, the English landscape and favourite old gardening clothes, to office greenery, spring in New York, waterfalls, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Landskipping

    Painters, Ploughmen and Places

    by Anna Pavord ...
    Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first started to paint English scenery, and the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Naming of Names

    The Search for Order in the World of Plants

    by Anna Pavord ...
    The Naming of Names traces the search for order in the natural world, a search that for hundreds of years occupied some of the most brilliant minds in Europe, reaching its apex during the renaissance.Anna Pavord takes us on a thrilling adventure into botanical history, travelling from Athens in the third century BC, through Constantinople, Venice, the medical school at Salerno to the universities ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-21

    by Henry Hopp ...
    Series Book 21 - Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
    Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Tips for Dirt-Cheap Gardening

    Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-158

    Series Book 158 - Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
    Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. ... Read more

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  • Harmony of disenchantment

    The look of a disenchanted neapolitan violinist is the thread that connects the nodes of its existence. The magic of Budapest as a backdrop to the sinking of his illusions; yet it is precisely the ability to react to any defeat will make him a kind of skillful surfer, able to ride the waves most impressive. In this eternal resume lies, perhaps, the harmony that governs his life. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cassiobury

    The Ancient Seat of the Earls of Essex

    One of the remnants of the great lost estates of the United Kingdom, Cassiobury Park is now the largest park in Hertfordshire, and the principal park of its primary town, Watford, covering an area twice the size of Hyde Park in London. But this is no ordinary town park. In 1661, Arthur, the 2nd Baron Capel, was made the Earl of Essex and, by 1668/69, he had moved to Cassiobury permanently. By 1707 ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Walls

    Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape

    by Thomas Oles ...
    Stone walls, concrete walls, chain-link walls, border walls: we live in a world of walls. Walls mark sacred space and embody earthly power. They maintain peace and cause war. They enforce separation and create unity. They express identity and build community. Yard to nation, city to self, walls define and dissect our lives. And, for Thomas Oles, it is time to broaden our ideas of what they can—and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Building Taliesin

    Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home of Love and Loss

    by Ron McCrea ...
    Through letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs - many of which have never before been published - author Ron McCrea tells the fascinating story of the building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, which would be the architect's principal residence for the rest of his life. Photos taken by Wright's associates show rare views of Taliesin under construction ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

    Edited by Kate Gilhuly, Nancy Worman ...
    This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the burgeoning ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • Composting for Organic Gardens

    by David Bigwood ...
    How to set up a garden compost area including what to put into the compost, how to maintain your composting area,and how to use the resulting soil. A brief history of composting which goes back some 7,000 years. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus