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As informative as it is accessible, this compact and expertly researched historical chronicle surprises and delights. * Georgina Chahed, Garden Design Journal * One of the nicest little books I've had in my hands for ages ... it is the overall sweep of the book that impresses * Gillian Mawrey, Historic Gardens Review * Condensed guide to garden history * Garden (Royal Horticultural Society) * a globe-trotting magical history tour * Leon Burakowski, Express & Star * The text is lucid, scholarly and, above all, highly readable. Linking together the famous names in horticulture past and present and offering up a coherent story, this is a book to browse and learn from and I suspect it will become well-thumbed. A short history it may be, but it is thorough and good. * Buckinghamshire Life Magazine * A joy to read * Suffolk and Norfolk Life *

Campbell's text is a deft combination of scholarship with affectionate and informed first-hand experience of gardens visited in seventy countries on every continent. For a history of nine short chapters the scope is breathtaking from the Ancient to the Future, and from Egypt to Australia, taking in East Asia, America, Africa and Europe on the way. This is not so much a whistle-stop tour of the great garden sites of the world, but more a brilliantly condensed cultural history literary, philosophical, religious, horticultural, artistic of gardens that have inspired mankind throughout the ages and continue to engage us as living creations in constant flux. Timothy Mowl, Emeritus Professor of History of Architecture and Designed Landscapes, University of Bristol

a globe-trotting magical history tour Leon Burakowski, Express & Star

A joy to read Suffolk and Norfolk Life The text is lucid, scholarly and, above all, highly readable. Linking together the famous names in horticulture past and present and offering up a coherent story, this is a book to browse and learn from and I suspect it will become well-thumbed. A short history it may be, but it is thorough and good. Buckinghamshire Life Magazine a globe-trotting magical history tour Leon Burakowski, Express & Star Condensed guide to garden history Garden (Royal Horticultural Society) As informative as it is accessible, this compact and expertly researched historical chronicle surprises and delights. Georgina Chahed, Garden Design Journal

As informative as it is accessible, this compact and expertly researched historical chronicle surprises and delights. * Georgina Chahed, Garden Design Journal * One of the nicest little books I've had in my hands for ages ... it is the overall sweep of the book that impresses * Gillian Mawrey, Historic Gardens Review * Condensed guide to garden history * Garden (Royal Horticultural Society) * a globe-trotting magical history tour * Leon Burakowski, Express & Star * The text is lucid, scholarly and, above all, highly readable. Linking together the famous names in horticulture past and present and offering up a coherent story, this is a book to browse and learn from and I suspect it will become well-thumbed. A short history it may be, but it is thorough and good. * Buckinghamshire Life Magazine * A joy to read * Suffolk and Norfolk Life * A useful overview. * Mary Davies, The Irish Garden *

`Campbell's text is a deft combination of scholarship with affectionate and informed first-hand experience of gardens visited in seventy countries on every continent. For a history of nine short chapters the scope is breathtaking from the Ancient to the Future, and from Egypt to Australia, taking in East Asia, America, Africa and Europe on the way. This is not so much a whistle-stop tour of the great garden sites of the world, but more a brilliantly condensed cultural history literary, philosophical, religious, horticultural, artistic of gardens that have inspired mankind throughout the ages and continue to engage us as living creations in constant flux.' Timothy Mowl, Emeritus Professor of History of Architecture and Designed Landscapes, University of Bristol

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Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. In January 2012 he was presented with the Longman History Today Trustees Award (for lifetime contribution to history). He has authored and edited many books for OUP including The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (2003); Renaissance Art and Architecture (2004); John Milton: Life, Work and Thought (2008; co-author); Bible: the Story of the King James Version, 1611-2011 (2010); and The Hermit in the Garden: from Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome (2013).

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