A Brief History of Gardening
In A BRIEF HISTORY OF GARDENING, Harvard graduate and gardener, Neil Fairbairn chronicles more than 8,500 years of gardening with wit and irreverence. Fairbairn's gift for telling is evident... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0875968635
ISBN13:9780875968636
Release Date:September 2001
Publisher:Rodale Books
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 8.4" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Ideal Gardener's Birthday Present
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
My wife is a keen gardener, belongs to a Garden Club, Trustee for our church's memorial garden, etc. - she has rhapsodized over this book, I believe it has given her more pleasure than any other birthday gift I've ever given her. Spouses of the world: take note!
Who knew gardening history could be so fun?
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
I received this books as a gift and was hooked from the start. The author's got a way with words, and he makes all his subjects interesting, some of them fascinating, and many of them downright funny.Contrary to another reviewer's stormy opinion, I liked the short, timeline-centered format. The title says "brief," not "totally in depth." But Fairbairn doesn't skimp on details, either -- he just doesn't try to cover all of agricultural history. This book has led me to think and read more about some of the topics he's exposed me to, which is really what a good book should do.A thoroughly enjoyable read.
For anyone who has ever enjoyed working the earth
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Spanning six continents and thousands of years of human history, Neil Fairbairn's A Brief History Of Gardening provides the reader with a superbly researched, written and presented history of the human practice of growing plants for food and pleasure. Enhanced with 350 illustrations, the text also features a time line to guide the reader through eras of agricultural trends and places events and movements within an easily identifiable context of human history. The short essays address a wide spectrum of subjects from what the Japanese noel "Tale of Genji" tells us about Japanese flower fetishes, to how herbalist healers were targeted in the Salem witch trials, to what the "Kama Sutra" has to say about gardening. A Brief History Of Gardening is highly recommended for anyone who has ever enjoyed the feel of working the earth to bring forth a crop, or labored in a grove or vineyard for the season's harvest, or simply shopped in nursery for seeds, plants or bulbs for their household garden.
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