Crossing continents and cultures from antiquity to the present, The Garden encompasses a global history of the garden, the place where culture and nature converge.The uniqueness of the book will come not only from its global scope - the embracing of East and West, English aristocrats and enslaved African Americans - but also from its movement between the story of actual gardens and revelations of the importance of gardens in a huge range of great works of literature and art, as well as in key ideas in philosophy and religion.
We will meet the great garden designers - Ji Cheng in China, André le Nôtre in France, Jefferson in the USA, Humphrey Repton and Gertrude Jekyll in England - but we will also range from Gilgamesh to Gethsemane, Eden to the Eden Project, and we will enter the imagined gardens of Shakespeare and Frances Hodgson Burnett, Goethe and Chekhov, Monet and Van Gogh, Confucius and Epicurus, and many, many more.
| ISBN: | 9780008610562 |
| Publication date: | 22nd October 2026 |
| Author: | Jonathan Bate |
| Publisher: | William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 592 pages |
| Genres: |
Gardening Nature and existence of God and of the Divine Cultural studies: customs and traditions Landscapes / seascapes Nature in art General and world history Gardens (descriptions, history etc) |
Crossing continents and cultures from antiquity to the present, The Garden encompasses a global history of the garden, the place where culture and nature converge.The uniqueness of the book will come not only from its global scope - the embracing of East and West, English aristocrats and enslaved African Americans - but also from its movement between the story of actual gardens and revelations of the importance of gardens in a huge range of great works of literature and art, as well as in key ideas in philosophy and religion. We will meet the great garden designers - Ji Cheng in China, André le Nôtre in France, Jefferson in the USA, Humphrey Repton and Gertrude Jekyll in England - but we will also range from Gilgamesh to Gethsemane, Eden to the Eden Project, and we will enter the imagined gardens of Shakespeare and Frances Hodgson Burnett, Goethe and Chekhov, Monet and Van Gogh, Confucius and Epicurus, and many, many more.
The Garden features in the following genres: Gardening, Nature and existence of God and of the Divine, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Landscapes / seascapes, Nature in art, General and world history, Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
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The Garden was written by Jonathan Bate and published by William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The Garden has 592 pages