Since 1973, Storey’s Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Observations in an Occupied Wilderness: Photographs by Terry Falke
Terry Falke’s wry, lyrical photographs center on the terrain of the American Southwest—and the ubiquity of humanity’s imprint on it. The images in Observations in an Occupied Wilderness both honor and subvert the grand tradition of western landscape photography, conveying the bleak splendor of the land and Falke’s sheer love of looking. Gorgeous, sardonic, and playful, Falke’s work emphasizes beauty and incongruity, and is as much about human nature as it is about the land. Shot with a large-format camera, the resultant images are personal and provocative, raising as many questions than they answer. This remarkable debut monograph is a shrewd exploration of our last wild places.
Observations in an Occupied Wilderness: Photographs by Terry Falke
Chatsworth: A Landscape History (Landscapes of Britain S.)
The seat of the Cavendish family since 1549, Chatsworth is more than a great country house: it is one of Europe’s finest designed landscapes. This book tells the story of Chatsworth’s gardens and park, a grand, thousand-year narrative that takes us from a small Domesday settlement to Elizabeth Frink’s sculpture of a stallion, set proudly at the head of the Canal Pond.
John Barnatt and Tom Williamson show how Chatsworth’s history is like a tapestry. Particular individuals -for instance ‘Bess’ of Hardwick, the successive Dukes of Devonshire, ‘Capability’ Brown and Joseph Paxton – come and go, weave their distinctive threads, and then move on. The authors trace these threads backwards and forwards in time, showing in detail the process of landscape evolution. The book:
combines original archival research and archaeological survey in a multi-faceted ‘garden history’;
is richly illustrated with photographs, historic maps and paintings from Chatsworth’s own collections;
reveals for the first time the details of the medieval and earlier field systems and settlements which underlie the park.
