Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed: Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens

by Nuala C. Johnson

Book Overview

Botanical gardens brought together in a single space the great diversity of the earth's flora. They displaced nature from forest and foothill and re-arranged it to reveal something of the scientific principles underpinning the apparent chaos of the wild. Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed shows how the design and display of such gardens was not determined by scientific principles alone. Through a study of three botanical gardens - belonging to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350165468
• ISBN13: 9781350165465
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"