BOOK - Around the world in 80 gardens

From the contemplative garden of Ryoan-ji in Japan to the arid garden of the Karoo desert in South Africa, from the classical garden of the Peterhof palace in Russia to the exuberant Monet garden in Giverny, the gardens take on surprising or intimate forms. , spectacular or discreet, but always dazzling and magical. Each of them reveals a unique story, testifies to ancestral know-how or a feat and more widely allows the discovery of a civilization, a natural environment and local flora. On this journey around the world, let yourself be charmed by the endless art of gardens. After studying philosophy, Michel Beauvais traveled at length around the world and developed a passion for plants, for wild nature and for the art of gardens. He has published extensively on the technique of gardening as well as the geography and history of this unclassifiable universe that can be found in all civilizations: the garden.