Asian Gardens: History, Beliefs and Design

by Tom Turner

The gardens made on the fringes of Central Asia in the past 5000 years form a great arc. From the Fertile Crescent, it runs west to Europe and east to China and Japan. Asia's fringe was a zone of interchange: a vast landscape in which herders encountered farmers and the design of symbolic gardens began. It appears that as they became settlers, nomads retained a love of mobility, hunting and the wild places in which their ancestors had roamed. Central...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041549687X
• ISBN13: 9780415496872
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.0" x 9.8"