The Garden: Our 4,000 Year Quest for ParadiseCrossing continents and cultures from antiquity to the present, The Garden encompasses a global history of the garden, the place where culture and nature converge. The uniqueness of the book will come not only from its global scope the embracing of East and West, English aristocrats and enslaved African Americans but also from its movement between the story of actual gardens and revelations of the importance of gardens in a huge range of great works