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The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness by John Hanson Mitchell

The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness

John Hanson Mitchell

216 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction adventurous informative medium-paced
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This is the ironic story of how Italian Renaissance and Baroque gardens encouraged the preservation of the American wilderness and ultimately fostered the creation of the world's first national park system. Told via Mitchell's sometimes disastrous...

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