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'Drool-over tour of the world's most celebrated gardens: from Mexico to India. Intelligently written and packed with new photographs.' (WOMAN & HOME )
'A sumptuous book for a garden lover to treasure' (SCOTTISH WOMAN )
'a joyous celebration of green-fingered ingenuity.' (CHOICE )
'a wonderful variety of features from grand vistas to intimate details. With glorious pictures and a tactile flocked jacket' (HOMES & GARDENS )
'A sumptuous book for a garden lover to treasure' (SCOTTISH WOMAN )
'a joyous celebration of green-fingered ingenuity.' (CHOICE )
'a wonderful variety of features from grand vistas to intimate details. With glorious pictures and a tactile flocked jacket' (HOMES & GARDENS )
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Monty Don spent six months visiting gardens all over the world for his groundbreaking and highly successful television series AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 GARDENS. During filming, he and the camera crew also spent time taking still photographs to record the extraordinary variety of gardens they visited. Many thousands of images resulted. This large-format, lavishly illustrated book presents the best of this unique archive. Featuring entirely new images, it captures the spirit of the gardens and celebrates the cultures and contexts in which they flourish. The sheer size and number of images allows an unforgettable progression of grand vistas and intimate details from all over the world.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Monty Don's TV tie-in book includes over sixty gardens listed under seven different headings such as Personal, Spiritual, Natural and Communal. The text is informative but fairly minimal, a brief paragraph about each garden, and a short paragraph to accompany each of some of the images. Each garden is represented by several photographs vary in number from two to seven or eight, sometimes more, usually with one or two large images and the rest smaller. While occasionally some of the plants used in a garden's planting scheme are named in general terms, the specific plants shown are not named. The layout is attractive and consistent. There is a contents page which lists all the gardens but no index.
The book is very well illustrated, but not with thousands of pictures as a quick read of the promotional blurb might suggest, it in fact contains around 450 colour photographs. I was a little disappointed with the overall standard of the photographs. The photography is at best generally good, or competent, only on occasion great; however the positive side of this is that the photography does not get in the way of the gardens, so does not add any additional gloss; we are looking at gardens rather than photography (although the two need not be exclusive, I would have liked to see more great shots). Monty himself does manage to get into one or two of the pictures.
Worth mentioning is the interesting dust jacket, with its raised flock maze design. This is an interesting book, and the pictures do inform, but to call it sumptuous is going a bit too far, lots of pictures do not necessarily equal lavish; it falls short of being a great book.
The book is very well illustrated, but not with thousands of pictures as a quick read of the promotional blurb might suggest, it in fact contains around 450 colour photographs. I was a little disappointed with the overall standard of the photographs. The photography is at best generally good, or competent, only on occasion great; however the positive side of this is that the photography does not get in the way of the gardens, so does not add any additional gloss; we are looking at gardens rather than photography (although the two need not be exclusive, I would have liked to see more great shots). Monty himself does manage to get into one or two of the pictures.
Worth mentioning is the interesting dust jacket, with its raised flock maze design. This is an interesting book, and the pictures do inform, but to call it sumptuous is going a bit too far, lots of pictures do not necessarily equal lavish; it falls short of being a great book.
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As I already have the DVDs of the gardens shown in this book, I was thrilled ro receive it. Its a real "Coffee Table" book, large, expensive looking, and the inside doesnt disappoint! A lovely book to browse through, relaxing, beautiful photos,exquisite lay out. A book I can turn to time and time again. I LOVE everything by Monty Don!
Maia Russell.
Maia Russell.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This beautiful book was bought as a present for a friend who loves gardens. She was thrilled with the book. Lovely photographs and well informed written text from Monty, based on his TV series. I'm really pleased I bought this for someone who appreciates it.
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