Elizabeth Barlow Rogers: 3 books
Writing the Garden
A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Gardening, more than most outdoor activities, has always attracted a cult of devotedly literate practitioners; people who like to dig, it would appear, also like to write. And many of them write exceedingly well. In this thoughtful, personal, and embracing consideration of garden writing, garden historian...
Saving Central Park
A History and a Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers opens with a quick survey...
Green Metropolis
The Extraordinary Landscapes of New York City as Nature, History, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the woman who launched the restoration of Central Park in the 1980s, now introduces us to seven remarkable green spaces in and around New York City, giving us the history—both natural and human—of how they have been transformed over time.
Here we find: The greenbelt...