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Informationen zum Autor Sarah Rutherford worked as an actor for over a decade before becoming a playwright and screenwriter. She was the inaugural Writer in Residence of Park Theatre, where her play Adult Supervision was nominated Best Off-West End Production (WhatsOnStage Awards). Other plays include Hybrid Vigour, In Neon and What You Do To People. She has also worked on R&D projects and readings at the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar Warehouse, Hampstead Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Leeds Playhouse. She is now working on a number of film and TV projects, and is one half of 2not2 Productions with actor Tanya Moodie. Klappentext Across the world there are more than a thousand botanical gardens, which combine scientific research, conservation and beauty with public access - Kew Gardens alone attracts around one million visitors a year. Their uses have varied through history - they might focus on cultivating exotic plants and produce; be honed to commercial ends (introducing lucrative plant crops such as tea and rubber to new countries); center on preserving collections of international plants; focus on scientific classification and research - or combine of all these things. Sarah Rutherford here tells the story of these diverse gardens in Britain and around the world, from their beginnings in the sixteenth century to their long heyday in the last three hundred years. She explains the design of the gardens, the architecture employed, the personalities and institutions that established and contributed to them, their important role in research and conservation, and what makes them so appealing to the millions of visitors they attract. Zusammenfassung Across the world hundreds of botanic gardens combine scientific research, conservation and beauty with public access, with Kew Gardens alone attracting around one million visitors a year. The author explains the gardens' design and architecture, the personalities and institutions associated with them, and their role in research and conservation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A Living Laboratory / The First Botanic Gardens: Physic Gardens in Europe / The Blossoming of British Botanic Gardens / Colonial Botanic Gardens / The United States of America / The Twentieth Century: Education and Conservation / What Makes a Botanic Garden? / Places to VIsit / Further Reading / Index...
