Shakespeare in the Garden

by Mick Hales

Book Overview

For Shakespeare in the Garden, fourteen gardens in England, the United States and Canada have been photographed by Mick Hales, one of the premier landscape photographers of our day. They include Shakespeare's own gardens as well as the three great restorations of major Elizabethan properties created by the Dowager Countess of Salisbury, and gardens in the United States and Canada that were inspired by and dedicated to the Bard. Hales describes each...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810957167
• ISBN13: 9780810957169
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.9" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Beyond my expectations

When you purchase a book online, one that you are buying for the photographs, you are taking a risk that it will not meet your expectations. Rest assured that THIS book is one that is what you expect it to be and beyond. Not only are the photographs of the gardens beautiful, but most helpful, and unexpected, is the index of plants mentioned in Shakespeare's plays and poetry and the actual quotes themselves. A page is dedicated to each plant or tree. You won't go wrong in purchasing this beautiful and useful book.

REFRESHINGLY SURPRISING, INFORMATIVE

Oh, the British... can't cook... but they sure can GARDEN! Just when you thought Shakespeare's been overexposed ad nauseum et infinitum, you learn some surprising 'new' facts about his life that... that... wait for it... has nothing to do with a drop of ink from his plume (not directly, anyway). Amazingly, these plants are still here. TODAY! As William the Bard would have written, "Wow!" or "Woweth!" Definitely worth another trip to London.