The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden: Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats
Roy Strong and Kate Felus
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Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures....
The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)
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Forget George and the Dragon. Forget Sir Lancelot and tales of Knightly exploits. This is dirty,...
Capability Brown: Designing English Landscapes and Gardens
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Widely acknowledged as the most influential land- scape designer of his age, Lancelot Capability...
Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail: Races and Rivalries on the Nineteenth Century High Seas
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In the era of commercial sail, clipper ships were the ultimate expression of speed and grace. Racing...
Place-Making: The Art of Capability Brown
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Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-1783) is the iconic figure at the head of the English landscape...
British Gardens in Time: The Greatest Gardens and the People Who Shaped Them
Nathan Harrison, Chris Beardshaw and Katie Campbell
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As Seen on the BBC. British Gardens in Time takes four iconic gardens, each a product of its age,...
Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England
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The sense of touch had a deeply uncertain status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It had...
Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages
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King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the...
Basic Instincts: Love, Lust and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore
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Published to coincide with the exhibition at the Foundling Museum in London, this fascinating book...
Capability Brown and the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape
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WHO WAS 'THE FAMOUS MR. BROWN', and why are his parks still so important? Today he is credited with...