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1. The California Garden Tour: The 50 Best Gardens to Visit in the Golden State
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In The California Garden Tour, veteran travel writer Donald Olson highlights 50 outstanding public gardens and provides all the information you need to make the most of your visit.From San Francisco andthe East Bay to Palm Springsand San Diego, Olson includesiconic gardens like the Getty Center, new favorites like Alcatraz, and uniquely Californian destinations like Lotusland and Sunnylands. The easy-to-use format includes visitor information, an evocative description, and full color photography for each garden.
2. The Pacific Northwest Garden Tour: The 60 Best Gardens to Visit in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia
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Your must-visit list of Northwest gardens is finally organized and illustrated. Sunset
Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia have a wealth of top-notch public gardens. In The Pacific Northwest Garden Tour veteran travel writer Donald Olson highlights sixty of the most outstanding options and provides all the information you need to make the most of your visit. This gorgeous and useful guide includes cherished public gardens and a handful of the most groundbreaking nurseries. Packed with memorable stories and stunning photography, it is a fantastic garden tour that only the scenic Pacific Northwest can provide.
3. The Gardens of California: Four Centuries of Design from Mission to Modern
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Nancy Goslee Power is one of California's most eminent landscape designers. The Gardens of California provides inspiration for anyone involved with the California landscape. The historical and modern gardens and the work of the many fantastically talented landscape designers who built them are instructional and inspirational to both the practical garden builder and the armchair dreamer. Nancy Power also provides a selection of her stunning garden designs, as well as handy plant lists.4. California Gardens: Creating a New Eden
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With its lush photographs and authoritative text this definitive history captures the exuberant past and dynamic present of the California garden. Ranging from the pragmatic plantings of the Spanish missions through Victorian fantasies and Hollywood extravagances and culminating in up-to-the-minute drought-tolerant gardens, California Gardens: Creating a New Eden provides a thought-provoking, eye-dazzling chronicle of the state's diverse garden traditions.Offering ideas and examples that will inspire all gardeners and garden lovers, David C. Streatfield recounts how amateurs, architects, landscape designers, and nurserymen have created the gardens of their dreams. His ground-breaking text - in preparation for over twenty years - illuminates how California's ecology, economy, and the importation of exotic plants and styles have shaped its gardens and ultimately influenced garden design around the world.
The various ways that landscape architecture and architecture have intertwined in the last two centuries are explored with particular insightfulness. Some of the finest architects and landscape architects of this century - Charles and Henry Greene, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, Thomas Church, Lockwood de Forest, Garrett Eckbo, and Florence Yoch - have shaped the landscape of California in distinctive ways.
Contemporary and historical color photographs by some of the country's best garden photographers are complemented by rare black-and-white archival illustrations and detailed plans. Two invaluable appendices provide biographies of the major designers and information about visiting the public gardens cited in the book.
5. The Pacific Northwest Garden Tour: The 60 Best Gardens to Visit in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia by Donald Olson (2014-07-23)
6. Celestial Sleuth: Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History and Literature (Springer Praxis Books)
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Fora general audience interested insolving mysteries in art, history, and literature using the methods of science, 'forensic astronomy' is a thrilling new field of exploration. Astronomical calculations are the basis of the studies, which have the advantage of bringing to readers both evocative images and a better understanding of the skies.
Weather facts, volcano studies, topography, tides, historical letters and diaries, famous paintings, military records, and the friendly assistance of experts in related fields add variety, depth, and interest to the work. The chosen topics are selected for their wide public recognition and intrigue, involving artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, and Ansel Adams; historical events such as the Battle of Marathon, the death of Julius Caesar, the American Revolution, and World War II; and literary authors such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Joyce, and Mary Shelley. This book sets out to answer these mysteries indicated with the means and expertise of astronomy, opening the door to a richer experience of human culture and its relationship with nature.
Each subject is carefully analyzed. As an example using the study of sky paintings by Vincent van Gogh, the analytical method would include:
- computer calculations of historical skies above France in the 19th century
- finding and quoting the clues found in translations of original letters by Van Gogh
- making site visits to France to determine the precise locations when Van Gogh set up his easel and what celestial objects are depicted.
For each historical event influenced by astronomy, there would be a different kind of mystery to be solved. As an example:
- How can the phase of the Moon and time of moonrise help to explain a turning point of the American Civil War - the fatal wounding of Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville in 1863?
For each literary reference to astronomy, it was determined which celestial objects were being described and making an argument that the author is describing an actual event. For example, what was the date of the moonlit scene when Mary Shelley first had the idea for her novel Frankenstein?
These and more fun riddles will enchant and delight the fan of art and astronomy.
7. Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth: Using Astronomy to Solve More Mysteries in Art, History, and Literature (Springer Praxis Books)
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From the author of "Celestial Sleuth" (2014), yet moremysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings. In addition to helping to crack difficult cases, these studies spark our imagination and provide a better understanding of the skies. Weather archives, vintage maps, tides, historical letters and diaries, military records and the assistance of experts in related fields help with this work.
For each historical event influenced by astronomy, there is a different kind of mystery to be solved. How did the changing tidesaffect an army's battle plans? How did the phases of the moon affect how an artist painted a landscape? Follow these exciting investigations with a master celestial sleuth as he tracks down the truth and helps unravel mysteries as far back as the Middle Ages and as recent as the iconic 1945 photograph of a kiss in Times Square on VJ Day.Topics or "cases" pursued were chosen for their wide public recognition and intrigue and involve artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet; historical events such as the campaigns of Braveheart in Scotland and battles in World War II and the Korean War; and literary authors such as Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Byron, and Edgar Allan Poe.
8. Frommer's Portland day by day
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Packed with color photos, this newly updated guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of "Stumptown" in a short timewith bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighborhood tours, plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor information, Frommer's Portland day by day is the only guide that helps travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. Author Donald Olson is a long-time resident of Portland, and a widely published author, both on travel and gardening.
Inside this book you'll find:
Full color throughout with scores of photos and dozens of maps
Sample one- to three-day itineraries that include Portland with Kids, Rainy Day Portland, Offbeat Portland, and more
A thorough discussion of side trips to the Willamette Valley (Portland wine country), the Columbia River Gorge, Mt. Hood, the Hood River, and the Oregon Coast
Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions--all to clue readers in on great finds and values
Exact pricing so theres never any guessing
A tear-resistant foldout map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet, as well as bulleted maps throughout.
About Frommers: Theres a reason that Frommers has been the most trusted name in travel for more than sixty years. Arthur Frommer created the best-selling guide series in 1957 to help American servicemen fulfill their dreams of travel in Europe, and since then, we have published thousands of titles became a household name helping millions upon millions of people realize their own dreams of seeing our planet. Travel is easy with Frommers.
9. Frommer's Seattle day by day
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Packed with color photos, this bestselling guide offers itineraries that show you how to see the best of Seattle in a short timewith bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of area and thematic tours, plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor info, Seattle Day by Day is the only guide that helps travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip.
Donald Olson is a long-time resident of the Pacific Northwest, and a noted garden expert. He is passionate about Seattle, and that passion comes through in this wittily written, enjoyable guide.
Seattle day by day contains:
Full color throughout with hundreds of photos and dozens of maps
Sample one- to three-day itineraries
Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions clue readers in on great finds and values
Exact pricing so theres never any guessing
Tear-resistant foldout map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet
About Frommers: Theres a reason that Frommers has been the most trusted name in travel for more than sixty years. Arthur Frommer created the best-selling guide series in 1957 to help American servicemen fulfill their dreams of travel in Europe, and since then, we have published thousands of titles became a household name helping millions upon millions of people realize their own dreams of seeing our planet. Travel is easy with Frommers.
10. Eyes on Nature: Dangerous Creatures
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