Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia - Paperback
by Sharon White
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sharon WhiteSeries:Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction (Paperback)Publish date:2011-03-15Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820337821ISBN-10:082033782XUPC:9780820337821Book Category:GardeningBook Subcategory:Garden Design, Urban & CommunitySize:8.10 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCEJC1RC0G
New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in Vanished Gardens. In prose now as precise and considered as the paths in a parterre, now as flowing and lyrical as an Olmsted vista, White explores Philadelphia's gardens as a part of the city's ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820337821ISBN-10:082033782XUPC:9780820337821Book Category:GardeningBook Subcategory:Garden Design, Urban & CommunitySize:8.10 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCEJC1RC0G
Sharon White is the author of a collection of poetry, "Bone House." Her memoir, "Field Notes: A Geography of Mourning," received the Julia Ward Howe Prize, Honorable Mention, from the Boston Author's Club. Some of her other awards include a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, the Leeway Foundation Award for Achievement, a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship,...
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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