'A Veritable Eden'. The Manchester Botanic Garden (e-bog) af Ann Brooks, Brooks
Ann Brooks, Brooks (forfatter)

'A Veritable Eden'. The Manchester Botanic Garden e-bog

139,89 DKK (inkl. moms 174,86 DKK)
The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience "not unlike a fashionable resort". Today the Garden is all but forgotten and only the former entrance gates and a street name remain. This book, illustrated with many contemporary engravings and postcards, charts the history...
E-bog 139,89 DKK
Forfattere Ann Brooks, Brooks (forfatter)
Udgivet 15 marts 2011
Længde 176 sider
Genrer 1DBK
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781905119554
The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience "not unlike a fashionable resort". Today the Garden is all but forgotten and only the former entrance gates and a street name remain. This book, illustrated with many contemporary engravings and postcards, charts the history of the Garden; its international reputation in horticultural developments and many floral triumphs; its recurrent financial crises and ultimate degeneration into a venue for cat and dog shows and final conversion to a doomed amusement park. Ann Brooks studied Pharmacy at Manchester University followed by a varied career in hospital pharmacy. Her great love of gardening and the history of the gardening movement led her to return to academia and she completed a PhD in 2007 on The Manchester Botanic Garden and the Movement for Subscription Botanic Gardens. She is the co-author of a number of papers on the history of Manchester and is currently writing a book on the movement for subscription botanic gardens and conducting research on Victorian villa gardens.