This monograph surveys both the pioneers of gardening design and the explorers who combed the world to find many of the plants grown today. It takes the reader from the formal gardens of the 17th century to the bandits, hunger and avalanches encountered by 19th-century explorers.
- ISBN10 0747529566
- ISBN13 9780747529569
- Publish Date 25 July 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English