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This book is ideal for enthusiasts of landscape architecture, sustainable design, and environmental stewardship. Garden designers, landscapers, and anyone interested in the art and science of integrating human activity with nature will find this both informative and inspiring.
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See moreAn updated and expanded edition of Kim Wilkie's classic work, widely acclaimed as a major contribution to the literature on landscape, sustainability, regeneration and design
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An updated and expanded edition of Kim Wilkie's classic work, widely acclaimed as a major contribution to the literature on landscape, sustainability, regeneration and design.
'A revelatory story of how landscapes in human hands can become inhabited works of art, written by one of the most gifted of today's landscape architects' — Sir David Attenborough
'If you want to make a landmark, do not grow gentians. Get Wilkie to shape the myths of your dreams.' — Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times
Full of enticing photography and thoughtful narrative, this is a powerful book that brings to life man's relationship with the land and his ability to thoughtfully enhance it. It is as informative as it is stimulating.
Kim Wilkie has a deep love and understanding of the human landscape: the symbiosis between people and nature that has created some of the most beautiful and ecologically rich places on our planet. Wilkie's work reconnects us to the idea that we are not admiring observers, but an essential part of the landscape we love.
In addition to the many private and public landscape designs described in the first edition of Led by the Land, this revised edition includes new projects, among them Kim Wilkie's thought-provoking designs for the grounds of London's Natural History Museum, tracing 'the passage from deep time to the present [and] to the future... exploring where we go next and how we can continue to survive in the narrow bands of atmosphere and topsoil that make life possible in the thin biosphere of the planet'.
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Praised by Sir David Attenborough as a revelatory survey of landscape as inhabited art, and regarded by the Financial Times and Gardens Illustrated as a profound and inspirational work, Led by the Land is considered a landmark contribution to garden and landscape literature. Reviews highlight its rich insights into humanity’s place in the environment and its hopeful message about future connections with the land.
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ISBN: 9781910258521
Publisher: Gemini Books Group Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 07 November 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pimpernel Press Ltd
Contributors:
- Foreword by Dieter Helm
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 170.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 216
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About the Author
Kim Wilkie had an intense introduction to landscape. He grew up in the Malaysian jungle and the Iraqi desert before being sent to school in southern England. Having studied history at Oxford and environmental design at the University of California, Berkeley, he set up his landscape studio in London in 1989. He is fascinated by the link between land and culture and between memory and imagination. He continues to teach sporadically at Berkeley, writes optimistically about land and place and is involved in various national committees on landscape and environmental policy in the UK. Dieter Helm†is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of New College Oxford, Chairman of the Natural Capital Committee and author of many books including†Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside (William Collins, 2019),†Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels†(Yale University Press, 2018) and†Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet†(Yale University Press, 2015).
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