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Clearings About the book:
Clearings The stories of six colonial Australian gardeners and their transformation of the Australian landscape are told in this revealing look at 19th-century botany, horticulture, and plant collecting. Original writings, illustrations, and photographs from this time period help to reveal the progress of the gardeners as they made clearings on land that they did not understand people still inhabited. Full description

Softcover, ISBN 0522851983
Publisher: Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2005., 2005
Used. Octavo, paperback,269 pp.,illustrations. BRAND NEW. Colonial gardens, as microcosms of the issues that faced colonial society, still inform our imaginings. The six gardeners chosen to explore the complexity of the colonial landscape view are Daniel Bunce, William Guilfoyle, William Macarthur, Thomas Lang, Josiah Mitchell and William Fergusson. (AUSTRALIA BOTANY GARDENING HISTORY ZZ_INPRINT ZZ_R_AUSTRALIA)