The Gardener's Reading Guide/the Best Books for Gardeners - Hardcover

Dean, Jan

9780816027545: The Gardener's Reading Guide/the Best Books for Gardeners

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816027544 ISBN 13: 9780816027545

Publisher: Facts on File, 1993

Lists and describes books on gardening, including autobiographical and biographical works; essays; instructional manuals for growing particular plants, using particular techniques, making special types of gardens, and gardening in specific places; and other types of books

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From Library Journal:

Lovers of gardening literature will welcome this bibliography, which lists over 2300 titles, both fiction and nonfiction, in about 100 subject categories (such as roses, herbs, Oriental gardens, gardening for kids, gardening videos, and mysteries featuring gardens). The author emphasizes books published in the last 15 years, most still in print or available through interlibrary loan, although the lists of fiction contain many "classics" much older than that. The annotations are uninspired (e.g., "She gardens in the Hudson Valley" and "What happens in his 60 by 90 vegetable garden"). Though many of the subject lists are extensive and useful, a few (e.g., "magazines") are too brief and hastily done, with obvious omissions. Nevertheless, there is no other bibliography of gardening literature currently available. This list includes more fiction than Richard Issacson's Gardening: A Guide to the Literature (Garland, 1985) and will assist public librarians in collection development and reader's advisory work.
- Laura Lipton, Miller Horticulture Lib., Seattle
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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