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Gardens : an essay on the human condition / Robert Pogue Harrison

Author
Harrison, Robert Pogue
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Physical Description
xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents
The vocation of care -- Eve -- The human gardener -- Homeless gardens -- "Mon jardin à moi" -- Academos -- The garden school of Epicurus -- Boccaccio's garden stories -- Monastic, republican, and princely gardens -- A note on Versailles -- On the lost art of seeing -- Sympathetic miracles -- The paradise divide: Islam and Christianity -- Men not destroyers -- The paradox of the age -- Epilogue -- Appendixes. From The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio -- From Mr. Palomar, Italo Calvino -- "The garden, " Andrew Marvell -- A note on Islamic carpet gardens.
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ISBN
9780226317892 (alk. paper)
0226317897 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and index.
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