The Times a Century in Photographs-Gardening, 1900-2000
By Mark Griffiths.
Description
This collection combines two of this century's best loved passions - gardening and photography. Over 300 photographs - a mixture of monochrome and colour - have been chosen for their humour, charm, aesthetic, curiosity and historical value. Some are hauntingly beautiful, others remarkably rare. Others still depict not only garden history, but social history in the making - snapshots, for example, of gardens in the Second World War when every spare yard of soil (castle moats, royal parks and polo grounds included) was devoted to vegetable production. Arranged chronologically, the photog...
ISBN(s)
0007634382, 9780007634385
