Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places - Softcover

Anna Pavord

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408868938 ISBN 13: 9781408868935

Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2017

Synopsis

Landskipping

About this title

About the Author:

Anna Pavord is the gardening correspondent for the Independent and the author of nine previous books, including the bestselling The Tulip and The Naming of Names. She wrote for the Observer for twenty years and has contributed to a number of magazines, both in the U.S. and the UK. She lectures regularly in the States and in the UK hosts programs for BBC Radio 3 and 4. For ten years, she chaired the Gardens Panel of the National Trust and sat on the Parks and Gardens Panel of English Heritage. For the last forty years she has lived in Dorset, England.

Language Notes:

Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land.
In the 18th century, artists first started to paint English scenery, and the lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind of visitor: the landscape tourist.
Early travel guides sought to capture the beauty and inspiration of waterfall, lake and fell. "Sublime! Picturesque!" they said as they laid down rules for correctly appreciating a view.
While painters painted and writers wrote, an entirely different band of men, the agricultural improvers, also travelled the land and published a series of remarkable commentaries on the state of agricultural England. They looked at the land in terms of its usefulness as well as its beauty, and, using their reports, Anna Pavord explores the many different ways that land was managed and farmed, showing that what is universal is a place's capacity to frame and define our experience.
Moving from the rolling hills of Dorset to the peaks of the Scottish Highlands, this is an exquisite and compelling book, written with zest, passion and deep understanding.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1408868938
• ISBN 13: 9781408868935
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260