James H S Mcgregor: 2 books

Book cover of Back to the Garden

Back to the Garden

Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present

by James H. S. McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015

The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship to the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape. Their image of the garden underwrote the biblical book of Genesis and the region’s...
Book cover of Athens
by James H. S. McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014

Revered as the birthplace of democracy, Athens is much more than an open-air museum filled with crumbling monuments to ancient glory. Athens takes readers on a journey from the classical city-state to today's contemporary capital, revealing a world-famous metropolis that has been resurrected and redefined time and again.
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