The Wishing Tree: A Guide to Memorial Trees, Statues, Fountains, etc. in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Domain, and Centennial Park, Sydney.
by Wilson, Edwin
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0864174373
- ISBN 13
- 9780864174376
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About This Item
Sydney: Kangaroo Press / Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, 1992. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white text-photos, colour photos, frontispiece, minor edgewear jacket (spine little faded), light foxing edges, few tiny fox spots endpapers, minor edgewear. 160 pp. Edwin Wilson explores the memorials, statues, fountains, buildings, roads, gates, holes in the grounds of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, and special plantings that cover one of the world's most spectacularly sited botanic gardens. The author is a poet and botanist with an interest in history. Includes a section on Centennial Park, which was under the administration of the Botanic Gardens from 1888 until 1980.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41291
- Title
- The Wishing Tree: A Guide to Memorial Trees, Statues, Fountains, etc. in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Domain, and Centennial Park, Sydney.
- Author
- Wilson, Edwin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0864174373
- ISBN 13
- 9780864174376
- Publisher
- Kangaroo Press / Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- gardening, flora, botany, statues, memorial trees, fountains, botanic gardens, centennial park, domain, new south wales (nsw), sydney
- Bookseller catalogs
- GARDENING & FLORA;
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