A collection of photographic and literary portraits of the homes of some of America's top writers includes coverage of such figures as Ernest Hemingway, Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, and Robert Frost; in a volume complemented by discussions of how their living environments reflected their creative processes and inner lives.

Complemented by rich duotone photographs, a collection of ten inspirational and meditative essays offers insights into how to celebrate the flaws that make us unique, fascinating, and lovable individuals. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Not since Martha Schinz's masterful Visions of Paradise, published in 1984, has there been such an important survey of garden design and style as Breaking Ground. Whereas Visions of Paradise featured classic European garden design, Breaking Ground takes an in-depth look at the work of ten contemporary garden designers living and working in America and Europe today...read more

Photographs portray the beauty of Italian, French, and English formal gardens and the statues, bridges, and pools in them

A stunning tour of magnificent coastal gardens along the shores of the United States and Europe captures the rich diversity and beauty of these landscapes, which range from formal gardens to rambling designs that evolve naturally from the natural surroundings. 12,500 first printing.

Profiles of fifteen artistic couples explore how two individuals with differing tastes achieve design harmony in a shared living space.

A behind-the-scenes tour of some of the most beuatiful private gardens of Los Angeles presents a series of creative gardening retreats, from Joni Mitchell's whimsical Bel-Air garden to a collection of rare succulent plants at Jack LaLanne's former residence to other innovative hideaways. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: The houses of writers are often places of both creation and inspiration, studio as much as home. This wonderful book takes readers into the intimacy of the homes of 20 great international figures--from Hemingway's simple, tropical world on Key West to the Connecticut Yankee home of Mark Twain to William Faulkner's Oxford plantation--to reveal their private worlds...read more