Named Nature Book of the Year Award 2007 Finalist by ForeWord Magazine, announced March 2008. Alaska/Yukon/Arctic Light is: the dramatically increasing light of spring, transforming the landscape; the light that quickens the urge to migrate, mate and bring forth young; the light of blooming color; the force that cycles the seasons; the energy that connects the region’s beings to each other; the light of an approaching storm, the aurora borealis, and the midnight sun; the light of pure creative energy reflected from wild eyes into our own. This book is a celebration of light and all that flows from it–especially the awakening, quickening light of spring in the far north that creates dramatic changes in the landscape each day. The perfect gift to share the light, landscape, and life of the Far North with someone you love, including yourself.
Creating Curb Appeal
This guide helps you create personality and presence for your home. Take a visual tour of architectural styles and design schemes with vitality and impact. 300 full-color photographs and well-researched text explore design elements from lighting, color, and landscaping, to doors, windows, paths, driveways, and accessories. Take cues from the country’s foremost residential design professionals that demystify design terminology, expose trade secrets, and offer expert advice, ideas, and solutions. Get information on the professionals and products essential to your successful front-of-the-home transformation.
Discover and magnify the design impact of your home’s front spaces.
European Gardens: History, philosophy and design
Garden design and usage has been a feature of human civilisation as far back as Neolithic times, when the first gardens began to be used for residential, horticultural and sacred tasks. Tom Turner follows the entire history of the European garden from its prehistoric roots right up to the present day in this beautifully illustrated book.
European Gardens is divided into ten periods of history and garden development, detailing the advancement of land usage for over 10,000 years. Some of the topics covered in this comprehensive book include the Egyptian gardens of the Pharaohs, the castle gardens of medieval times, eclectic gardens of the nineteenth century and abstract gardens of the last 100 years. The geographical scope of this book covers the whole of the European continent, and touches the garden designs of North Africa and the Middle East.
Tom Turner is a skilled landscape architect and garden historian, who supports his engaging writing with his own detailed plans and diagrams. European Gardens also features almost 1,000 colour photographs from across the continent allowing the reader to see for themselves how the design and structure of gardens has developed over time.
A companion to the Asian Gardens book, published by Routledge in 2010, European Gardens is a development of the original Garden History book from 2004.
