Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life
The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales
$49.50
- Hardcover
340 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2013
Summary
A New York Times Bestseller
There aren’t many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters—Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest—exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens.
In Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, bestselling author Marta McDowell explores the origins of Beatrix Potter’s love of gardening and plants and shows how this passion came to be reflected in her work. The book …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781604693638 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1604693630 |
| Author: | Marta McDowell |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing |
| Imprint: | Timber Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 340 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 166mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
“You will be charmed by this book.”
‘There are photographs here that I have never seen before of Beatrix and her gardens, and delicious watercolours of rose hips, violets, clematis and honeysuckle, snapdragons and waterlilies.’ (Alan Titchmarsh, The Telegraph)
About The Author
Marta McDowell
Marta McDowell lives, gardens, and writes in Chatham, New Jersey. She consults for public gardens and private clients, writes and lectures on gardening topics, and teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, where she studied landscape design. Her particular interest is in authors and their gardens, the connection between the pen and the trowel.
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