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Author: Judith Baskin
Publisher: National Library Australia
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 0642106681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustralia's Timeless Gardens is a celebration of private gardening in Australia since 1788. Presenting more than 100 paintings, engravings, sketches and photographs from the collections of the National Library of Australia, it offers a pictorial tour through two centuries of gardening history.
Author: Tony Hall
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 064309816X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the disappearance of the traditional, substantial Australian backyard.
Author: Roger McDonald
Publisher: National Library Australia
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0642276714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on the extensive collection of the National Library of Australia, this book highlights the fingerprints humans have left on the landscape through the lenses of Australia's greatest photographers. Roger Mcdonald has written an insighful introductory essay as well as extended captions describing his response.
Author: Roff Martin Smith
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFull-color photographs depict all sides of Australia: its urban and rural landscapes, its wildlife, its sealife, its sixty-thousand-year-old Aboriginal culture, and the rest of its society.
Author: Gordon Ford
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781876473099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor too long Australians have been dominated by European gardening trends. Gordon Ford, like no other landscape designer before him, mastered the natural Australian style. Gordon Ford was early influenced by the English natural style landscape school of the eighteenth century. But his great skill has been to work with Australia's natural elements and to develop gardens that not only honoured the rugged beauty of the Australian landscape, but did so in a way that captured its apparent timelessness -- his gardens look as if they have always been there. In shaping our visual world, Gordon Ford focused on the essential balance between mass and void in his designs. His balance of the natural elements of rocks, water, trees and other plants achieves a timeless harmony -- we feel totally satisfied but uncertain as to where Mother nature stars and Gordon Ford finishes.
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Published: 1996-12
Total Pages: 960
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tamara S Wagner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1317323130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection from a distinguished group of contributors explores a range of topics including literature as imperialist propaganda, the representation of the colonies in British literature, the emergence of literary culture in the colonies and the creation of new gender roles such as ‘girl Crusoes’ in works of fiction.
Author: Richard Aitken
Publisher: The Miegunyah Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 0522857507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Garden of Ideas tells an inspiring and engaging story of Australian garden design. From the imaginings of emigrant garden-makers of the late eighteenth century to the concerns of twenty-first-century gardeners, this book charts its way across four centuries through a handsome and satisfying fusion of images and text. The Garden of Ideas is embellished with an unparalleled array of images - paintings, drawings, prints, plans, and photographs - each richly evocative of their time and most never previously published. Unearthed from around Australia, and many from overseas, these images carry the story of Australian garden style down the years, in the process criss-crossing social and cultural history across the wide extremes of our continent. Richard Aitken, whose book Botanical Riches was published in 2006 to popular and critical acclaim, brings a lifetime of experience to The Garden of Ideas. He achieves fresh insights and presents our passion for garden-making with wit and flair. The Garden of Ideas is a valuable source book for the sophisticated gardener and an indispensable companion for the garden lover.
Author: Daniel J. Hinkley
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2020-09-22
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1604699019
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Dan Hinkley is a rare man, generous, inspired, and gifted with an eye for beauty that is given to few people. How I long to wander again in the galloping beauty of his garden at Windcliff. Here it is, in all its inspiring wonder.” —Anna Pavord, author of Landskipping and The Curious Gardener Daniel Hinkley is widely recognized as one of the foremost modern plant explorers and one of the world’s leading plant collectors. He has created two outstanding private gardens—Heronswood and Windcliff. Both gardens, and the story of how one begat the other, are beautifully celebrated in Hinkley’s new book, Windcliff. In these pages you will delight in Hinkley’s recounting of the creation of his garden, the stories of the plants that fill its space, and in his sage gardening advice. Hinkley’s spirited ruminations on the audacity and importance of garden-making—contemplations on the beauty of a sunflower turning its neck from dawn to dusk, the way a plant’s scent can spur a memory, and much more—will appeal to the hearts of every gardener. Filled with Claire Takacs’s otherworldly photography, Windcliff is spectacular for both its physical beauty and the quality of information it contains.
Author: Mark Tredinnick
Publisher: National Library Australia
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0642277230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Weather is the oldest story in the world-one we want to keep on telling each other when we meet, as though it were part of who we are, a story that wants to keep on telling itself, and affecting us, whether we like it or not. We breathe it in; we see embodied in it our fears and desires; it falls on our heads. And we'd better take care of it: our lives are in its hands." Marrying photographs from the collection of the National Library of Australia with an evocative and contemplative essay by poet Mark Tredinnick, Australia's Wild Weather is a lyric field guide to Australia's climate. Tredinnick considers what it means to be living at time when weather is no longer small talk; it is most of the news. Beautifully written, the author contemplates what weather means to us and how it affects our daily lives.
