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The Jenkins book is the one I've been quoting from.
WF
-----Original Message-----
From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
On Behalf Of P.L. Chalmers
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 10:21 PM
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: [NatureNS] Books on lawns (was Lawn flowers/weeds)
Hi there,
I think the first is the book which Joan had in mind, but
here are two books critiquing this idea of lawns:
Title: The lawn : a history of an American obsession /
Virginia Scott Jenkins.
Author: Jenkins, Virginia Scott.
Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution
Press, c1994.
Title: American green : the obsessive quest for the perfect
lawn / Ted Steinberg.
Author: Steinberg, Theodore,1961-
Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
Cheers,
Patricia L. Chalmers
Halifax
At 08:06 PM 17/06/2007, you wrote:
>I've been trying to locate a book published about five years ago about the
>lawns in our lives. It's a British book and I remember the review I read, I
>think was in the Times and covered the sociological and historical look at
>lawns. It's a sore point with me. I am the president of a Halifax condo
and
>the owners think the grass should look like a golf green( the chemical
>kind). I keep meaning to ask Terry Paquettes brother who is librarian at
the
>ag college, whether he has heard of it.
>Its awful that we human beings are held to ransom by grass
>Joan Waldron
>
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