Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226317908ISBN-10:226317900UPC:9780226317908Book Category:Religion, Gardening, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Essays & NarrativesSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCB0TKC3XE
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
Humans have long turned to gardens-both real and imaginary-for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh's garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens.
With Gardens,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226317908ISBN-10:226317900UPC:9780226317908Book Category:Religion, Gardening, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Essays & NarrativesSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCB0TKC3XE
Robert Pogue Harrison is the Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of four books, including Forests: The Shadow of Civilization and The Dominion of the Dead, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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