Author : RACHEL. WEAVING
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1999782518
GARDENS OF CORFU.
RACHEL. WEAVING
Gardens Of Corfu
Gardens Of Corfu Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Gardens Of Corfu book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Garden of the Gods
Gerald Durrell
Author : Gerald Durrell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241981689
The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell Pdf
The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells. Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children, ten-year-old Gerald, discovered his passion for animals: toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and octopuses. Through glorious silver-green olive groves and across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession . . . causing hilarity and mayhem in his ever-tolerant family.
Garden Physic
Sylvia Legris
Author : Sylvia Legris
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811229913
Garden Physic by Sylvia Legris Pdf
A musical celebration of the garden, from chaff to grass, and all of its lowly weeds, herbs, and creatures Sylvia Legris’s Garden Physic is a paean to the pleasures and delights of one of the world’s most cherished pastimes: Gardening! “At the center of the garden the heart,” she writes, “Red as any rose. Pulsing / balloon vine. Love in a puff.” As if composed out of a botanical glossolalia of her own invention, Legris’s poems map the garden as body and the body as garden—her words at home in the phytological and anatomical—like birds in a nest. From an imagined love-letter exchange on plants between garden designer Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson to a painting by Agnes Martin to the medicinal discourse of the first-century Greek pharmacologist Pedanius Dioscorides, Garden Physic engages with the anaphrodisiacs of language with a compressed vitality reminiscent of Louis Zukofsky’s “80 Flowers.” In muskeg and yard, her study of nature bursts forth with rainworm, whorl of horsetail, and fern radiation—spring beauty in the lines, a healing potion in verse.
Corfu
Spiro Flamburiari
Author : Spiro Flamburiari
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Corfu Island (Greece)
ISBN : 071955375X
Corfu by Spiro Flamburiari Pdf
Louis Benech
Eric Jansen
Author : Eric Jansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 2353401554
Louis Benech by Eric Jansen Pdf
This book presents twelve French gardens designed by Louis Benech.
A Tale of Two Gardens
Octavio Paz
Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811213498
A Tale of Two Gardens by Octavio Paz Pdf
Octavio Paz, 1990 Nobel Prize winner, declares that his many nonfiction books on the subject of India are only footnotes to his India poems. Those collected here cover more than 40 years of Paz's many and various commitments to Indiaas Mexican ambassador, student of Indian philosophy, and, above all, poet. "Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century's turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West".PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
A House in Corfu
Emma Tennant
Author : Emma Tennant
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781466819245
A House in Corfu by Emma Tennant Pdf
The story of an unspoiled island and an English family making a home by the Aegean Sea. In the early 1960s Emma Tennant's parents, on a cruise, spotted a magical bay and decided to build a house there. This book is the story of that house, Rovinia, set above the bay in Corfu where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked and found by Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous. It is also the story of the couple who have been at Rovinia since the feast in the grove that followed the roof-raising-Maria, a miraculous cook and the presiding spirit of the house, and her husband, Thodoros-and of the inhabitants of the local village, high on the hill above the bay. Tennant offers us the delights of quotidian adventures-salt water in the well, roads to nowhere, collapsing walls-all hilariously presented. That the house is still lived in and loved, with new generations coming to understand the delights of Corfu, is a tribute to the people and a special landscape which is distinctly Greek. Full of color and contrast, A House in Corfu shows the huge changes in island life since the time of the Tennants' arrival, and celebrates, equally, the joy of belonging to a timeless world: the world of vine, olive, and sea.
Spirit of the Garden
Trisha Dixon
Author : Trisha Dixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 0642279705
Spirit of the Garden by Trisha Dixon Pdf
Gardens can be formal or wild, serene or ostentatious, native or exotic, colourful or monochrome --according to Trisha Dixon, if we like a person, we will probably like their garden In a series of written reflections, interwoven with her evocative, painterly photographs, Trisha explores the relationship that exists between ourselves, our gardens and the natural landscape. Beyond the design and the plants, there is the feel of the garden, which captures the heart from the moment you enter a landscape and stays with you long after you have left. In a chapter on Gardens of the Mind, Trisha explores how artists, thinkers and writers have acknowledged and found value in the spirit of gardens and landscapes. Socrates found truth and beauty beyond Athens' city walls in a sacred grove. Closer to home, Jorn Utzon, designer of Sydney's Opera House sought inspiration and solace in a sandstone beach cave and Arthur Boyd experienced the Shoalhaven as a Wagnerian opera or a Mozart symphony. In Our Ancient Land, Trisha writes about landscapes full of stories, songlines and tracks. She welcomes the shift away from an Anglocentric approach to landscape design to one that shows an intimate engagement with the spirit of place, an acknowledgement of the Aboriginal history and mythology embedded in the land. This is not just to be found in the ancient heart of the country. In Melbourne's Royal Park, for example, bounded by noisy traffic and high-rise buildings, landscape designer Gordon Ford has created a bush pool that you'd feel fortunate to find in the interior of the Kimberley. Her message is the need to understand and respect the environment in our garden making. By approaching nature with humility, rather than a desire to control it, we can make our gardens places of beauty and peace, which nurture body and soul. She explains different approaches to garden design, exploring the teachings of landscape architects and designers of renown. And she frames this in the context of a harsh and changing climate that we need to embrace. Full-colour photographs show the golden glow of seed heads, a Eucalypt reflected in a still pool, magnificent angophoras and mossy outcrops in an escarpment garden on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Here is Annie Snodgrass' Jilba garden in Young, bursting with a Mediterranean palette of greens, purples and white. Here is Philip Cox's South Coast retreat, showing a total harmony of landscape and understated, rustic architecture.
The Garden of Cyrus..
Sir Thomas Browne
Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1736
Category : Gardening
ISBN : OXFORD:N11660078
The Garden of Cyrus.. by Sir Thomas Browne Pdf
Gardens of the Roman Empire
Wilhelmina F. Jashemski,Kathryn L. Gleason,Kim J. Hartswick,Amina-Aïcha Malek
Author : Wilhelmina F. Jashemski,Kathryn L. Gleason,Kim J. Hartswick,Amina-Aïcha Malek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108327039
Gardens of the Roman Empire by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski,Kathryn L. Gleason,Kim J. Hartswick,Amina-Aïcha Malek Pdf
In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. This study, therefore, includes for the first time, archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence about ancient Roman gardens across the entire Roman Empire from Britain to Arabia. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various types of gardens are examined, from how Romans actually created their gardens to the experience of gardens as revealed in literature and art. Demonstrating the central role and value of gardens in Roman civilization, Jashemski and a distinguished, international team of contributors have created a landmark reference work that will serve as the foundation for future scholarship on this topic. An accompanying digital catalogue will be made available at: www.gardensoftheromanempire.org.
Memory Gardens
Robert Creeley
Author : Robert Creeley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015014646569
Memory Gardens by Robert Creeley Pdf
As on a quiet walk through a familiar landscape, the poet leads us along paths fo recolletion. Thoughts turn back upon themselves, evoking half-forgtten intangibles of past moments.
Wild Garden Weekends
Tania Pascoe
Author : Tania Pascoe
Publisher : Wild Things Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 0957157398
Wild Garden Weekends by Tania Pascoe Pdf
This stunning and original British travel guide charts lesser known gardens, spectacular meadows, the best kitchen garden food, plus wild places to camp and stay.
Angels & Saints
Eliot Weinberger
Author : Eliot Weinberger
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780811229876
Angels & Saints by Eliot Weinberger Pdf
A gorgeously illustrated co-publication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). With a guide to the illustrations by Mary Wellesley. Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The celebrated essayist Eliot Weinberger has mined and deconstructed, resurrected and distilled centuries of theology into an awe-inspiring exploration of the heavenly host. From a litany of angelic voices, Weinberger’s lyrical meditation then turns to the earthly counterparts, the saints, their lives retold in a series of vibrant and playful capsule biographies, followed by a glimpse of the afterlife. Threaded throughout Angels & Saints are the glorious illuminated grid poems by the eighteenth-century Benedictine monk Hrabanus Maurus. These astonishingly complex, proto-“concrete” poems are untangled in a lucid afterword by the medieval scholar and historian Mary Wellesley.
The Colossus of Maroussi
Henry Miller
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811218573
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller Pdf
Henry Miller’s landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond’s backpack. Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent travel writers such as Pico Iyer and Rolf Potts. The book Miller would later cite as his favorite began with a young woman’s seductive description of Greece. Miller headed out with his friend Lawrence Durrell to explore the Grecian countryside: a flock of sheep nearly tramples the two as they lie naked on a beach; the Greek poet Katsmbalis, the “colossus” of Miller’s book, stirs every rooster within earshot of the Acropolis with his own loud crowing; cold hard-boiled eggs are warmed in a village’s single stove, and they stay in hotels that “have seen better days, but which have an aroma of the past.”
Cicada
Phoebe Giannisi
Author : Phoebe Giannisi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811230247
Cicada by Phoebe Giannisi Pdf
The celebrated Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi explores connections between language, life, and the natural world By one of Greece’s foremost contemporary poets, Cicada is Phoebe Giannisi’s second collection in English. The cicada signifies metamorphosis in this breathtaking, lyrical book, which evokes the spirits of Archilochus, Plato, Empedocles, and Heraclitus. As the translator Brian Sneeden remarks: “The ‘I’ in Giannisi’s poetry is never static, never a fixed point, but part of a process of rebodying the ambient.” Yet, despite the fluid, mythic nature of Giannisi’s poems, they are also exquisitely rooted in the everyday: the sea heard through a window, the murmur of a distant mechanical crane, a damp wind, a photo of John and Yoko. Giannisi is a poet internationally known for her idiosyncratic eco-poetics, as well as her poetic multimedia works and performances, and most of all for her brilliant vision glowing at the borders of language, voice, place, and memory.