Gardens An Essay on the Human Condition

Name: Gardens An Essay on the Human Condition
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ISBN: 9781459606265

ISBN-10: 1459606264

ISBN-13: 9781459606265

Edition: Large Type

Authors: Robert Pogue Harrison

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Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh's garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens. With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has served…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
Publication date: 5/14/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English