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In the time of Shakespeare, there was intense interest in gardens. Gardens not only provided beauty - they provided healing herbs, vegetables, fruit, perfumes and household remedies. New plants were being brought to England from all over the world and Elizabethan gardens reached a peak of beauty and complexity. This beautifully produced book features fourteen gardens: three gardens on properties owned by Shakespeare; three restorations of major Elizabethan period gardens; gardens in the United States inspired by and dedicated to the Bard; and the Canadian gardens of Stratford, Ontario and British Columbia. The author is one of the premier landscape photographers and each entry has a detailed description and history of its creation; each photograph is accompanied by a substantial quotation from the play in which the plant or tree is referenced by the Bard. -
Running Amok: Mark Bowling
$20.00As a journalist, Mark goes where the stories are - from East Timor to cover the struggle for independence, to Aceh and West Papua to report on the separatist crisis and to Ambon where Christians and Muslims wage a bloody war. But he is also a husband and father. Amid the violence he and wife Kim set out to make a home for their family, trying to balance the demands of life as a foreign correspondent with the strangeness of a very different culture and a country running amok. Bowling joined ABC as a reporter in 1985. Illustrated with colour photos on verso of front and back covers. -
A volume covering the cultural landscape of New South Wales through how and what we built, and the importance of preserving the examples of architecture we can before development and demolition removes them forever: the evolution of our architecture; how economic development via immigration and capital inflow played a role; the influence of the pastoral, wheat and dairy industries; the growth and decline of country towns; how the railways, road building and transport altered the where and when of accommodation establishments; the proliferation of the colliery towns - and how Sydney went from being a town to being a city. Black and white photographs. -
This is the revised, expanded and illustrated 1982 version. Chapters include: Black and White Discoverers, C. 100,000 B.C. - A.D. 1770; Empire, Convicts And Currency, 1771 - 1820; New Settlements And New Pastures, 1821 - 1850; Diggers, Democracy and Urbanisation, 1851 - 1885; Radicals and Nationalists, 1886 - 1913; War And Depression, 1914 - 1938; War And Affluence, 1939 - 1966; Reform and Reaction, 1967 - 1982. Illustrated with black and white photographs and sketches. -
Whether or not this hefty volume contains absolutely every film ever made between the title dates, we can't say. But it is comprehensive! Each entry lists the leading actors, release dates, running time, alternate titles, distributors and ratings. It includes foreign films, documentaries, animated features, silent films, short features and movies made-for-TV. It even includes film companies no longer in business. Black and white photos. -
In Victorian England there was only one fail-safe authority on matters ranging from fashion to puddings to scullery maids: Beeton’s Book of Household Management. This biography pulls back the lace curtains to reveal the woman behind the book - Mrs. Beeton, the first domestic diva of the modern age - and explores the life of the book itself. Isabella Beeton was a twenty-one-year-old newlywed with only six months’ experience running her own home when - coaxed by her husband, a struggling publisher - she began to compile her own book of recipes and domestic advice in a day and age when such books where very few and far between. The aspiring mother hardly suspected that her name would become synonymous with housewifery for generations. Nor would the women who turned to the book for guidance ever have guessed that its author lived in a simple house in the suburbs with a single maid-of-all-work instead of presiding over a well-run estate. Isabella would die at twenty-eight, shortly after the book's publication, never knowing the extent of her legacy. As her survivors faced bankruptcy, sexual scandal and a bitter family feud that lasted more than a century, Mrs. Beeton’s book became an institution. For an exploding population of the newly affluent, it prescribed not only how to cook and clean but ways to cope with the constant social flux of the emerging consumer culture: how to plan a party for ten, whip up a hair pomade or calculate how much money was needed to permit the hiring of a footman. This is also a vivid picture of Victorian home life and its attendant anxieties, nostalgia, and aspirations - not so different from modern life today. -
She symbolised the twenties and scandalized the thirties; like a shooting star, she was beautiful, rebellious - and doomed. By all accounts Nancy Cunard was a bewitching woman. The only child of an American society hostess and an English baronet, she became the darling of high-cafe society in the twenties and thirties. She had an insatiable lust for life and lovers; her private affairs became public scandals. She knew TS Eliot, James Joyce, and Louis Aragon; she sat for Cecil Beaton, and Max Beerbohm sketched her; she was an Aldous Huxley heroine in Antic Hay. A poet and a writer, she was the avant-garde publisher who "discovered" Samuel Beckett. She was a passionate advocate of racial equality and a journalist in the Spanish Civil War. By the time of her tragic death in 1965, Nancy Cunard had become the dazzling symbol of her age. Black and white photographs. -
This fabulous omnibus volume contains: If Only The Could Talk: When the newly qualified vet James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby in 1937, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead. It's not long before he's swept into the Darrowby life - all the toughness and humour; and the joys and heartbreaks. It Shouldn't Happen To A Vet: How on earth did James Herriot come to be sitting on a high Yorkshire moor, smelling vaguely of cows? James isn't sure, but he knows that he loves it. This second hilarious volume of memoirs contains more tales of James' unpredictable boss Siegfried Farnon, his charming student brother Tristan, animal mayhem galore and his first encounters with a beautiful girl called Helen. Let Sleeping Vets Lie: With two years experience behind him, James Herriot still feels privileged working on the beautiful Yorkshire moors as assistant vet at the Darrowby practice. Time to meet yet more unwilling patients and a rich cast of supporting owners. Full of hilarious tales of the cantankerous Siegfreid, his charming student brother Tristan, the joys of spring lambing, a vicious cat called Boris and James' jinxed courtship of the lovely Helen. Vet In Harness: The Yorkshire dales have never seemed more beautiful for James - he has a lovely wife by his side, a partner's plate on the gate and the usual menagerie of farm animals, pets and owners demanding his constant attention and teaching him a few lessons along the way. All of the old Darrowby friends are on top form - Siegfried thrashes round the practice, Tristan occasionally buckles down for finals and James is signed up for a local cricket team. There's all the regulars too - such as Mrs Pumphrey's Pekinese Tricki Woo, and Gertrude the beer-swilling pig. Timeless tales from an era now regrettably gone for ever. -
Before 1840, no-one really knew who the Maya were or where they came from. In 1839, Stephens and Catherwood hacked their way through the jungles of Central America to explore and discover the remains of the mysterious Maya civilisation. This pair of 19th century explorers formed a remarkable combination. Stephens, an American lawyer was an unusually fine writer and Catherwood, an English architect, was an accomplished and renowned artist. This biographical account traces their eventful lives: the drama, the excitement, all the adventure and hardship of their arduous journey to the heart of the ancient Maya civilisation. With colour and black and white illustrations.
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