Clearings: Six Colonial Gardeners and Their Landscapes
Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 2005. Small quarto, stiff illustratied wraps with folding flaps, many colour and b&w illustrations, pp xvii, 269 including bibliography and index. Fine condition.
In "Clearings", Paul Fox tells the stories of six colonial gardeners and their making of the (postcolonial) Australian landscape. The individual stories reveal the nuances in the history of nineteenth-century botany, horticulture and plant collecting. Richly illustrated with garden plans, botanical illustrations and photographs frpom the period. Item #105981
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