ENGLISH GARDEN ECCENTRICS: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries

Examines what it is about the gardener and his or her creation that can be seen as eccentric, and analyzes an area of garden history that has scarcely been previously explored: gardens seen as expressions of the singular character of their makers, and therefore, in effect, functioning as a form of autobiography. Illus.