American Garden Writing features the letters, travel journals, essays, natural histoires, and seed catalogues of over 50 authors, including Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Olmsted (who designed Central Park), Henry David Thoreau, and Edith Wharton. With topics ranging from the decorative gardens of yesteryear to the ecological concerns of today, these pieces evoke the pastoral and social environments of their time. This expanded edition contains new pieces from diane Ackerman, Joan Dye Gussow, Jamaica Kincaid, Janet Marinelli, Gary Paul Nabhan, Michael Polan, Sara B. Stein, Peg Streep, Alice Waters, and William Woys Weaver.
- ISBN10 1555540295
- ISBN13 9781555540296
- Publish Date 1 October 1991
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 12 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 14
- Language English