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Bezig met laden... A Crocodile in the Fernery: An A-Z of Animals in the Gardendoor Twigs Way
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Perhaps one of the less known facts about the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti is that he kept wombats in his garden at Cheyne Walk, London, to whom he and Christina addressed poetry (he also kept zebu - a type of cattle). This is just one of the stories in this entertaining book, which brings together two of the Englishman's great loves: animals and the garden. Taking the reader on a journey from the armadillos owned by merchants in the City of London in the 18th century and nourished on garden earthworms, to Queen Charlotte's zebra, which was accommodated close to her house at Buckingham Gate and renowned for its filthy temper - perhaps caused by nicotine addiction: it was fed on bread, meat and tobacco - here are quirky tales of animals in the garden through the centuries. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)712.6094209The arts Area planning and landscape architecture Landscape architecture / landscape design Private parks and grounds Home and Private Gardens of Particular Regions or Persons Home and Private Gardens of Europe Home and Private Gardens of England and WalesWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.5)
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This is a rather nice little listing of peculiar choices of garden pet made throughout history - not straying far from the UK (though clearly the Assapannick is an exception) and only occasionally varying from the concept of what we might agree on as a pet (Charles Darwin's obsession with worms is a bit of a stretch).
It doesn't claim to be more than what it is, a collection of anecdotes, some of which cast new light on historical figures (the poet Cowper and his hares; the diarist John Evelyn and his bees and tortoise; the gardener Gertrude Jekyll and the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti both kept rather surprising menageries) and some of which are just "Gosh!" stories, like Charlemagne's elephant or the Duke of Richmond's moose. And I confess I had not heard of the assapanick before (you can find it also on a list of words which sound rude but are not). (