English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries as a form of autobiography

as a form of autobiography

Prisse first embarked on his explorations in 1836

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They include such fascinating characters as the superstitious antiquary William Stukeley and the animal- and bird-loving Lady Read

English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries as a form of autobiographyA highly original study of eccentric English garden makers and their extraordinary gardens In his new book, English Garden Eccentrics, renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe Gowan reveals a series of obscure and eccentric English garden makers who, between the early seventeenth and the early twentieth centuries, created intensely personal and idiosyncratic gardens. They include such fascinating characters as the superstitious