In stunning images and soulful words, Seeing Gardens is award-winning photographer Sam Abell's intensely personal and celebratory display of the beautiful, exotic, and often startlingly unconventional gardens he has discovered over the course of three decades of international travel. The book is divided into three sections—The Garden, Wild Gardens, and Seeing Gardens—that chronicle Abell's discoveries of English historic gardens, Tolstoy's garden, Venetian gardens, Moroccan oasis gardens, the minimalist Zen gardens of Kyoto, and spotlight garden-like beauty in such untamed regions as the Australian Outback, the Alaskan Arctic, and the Appalachian Trail. An epilogue illuminates the imaginative ways people incorporate the universal poetry of gardens into their lives. With compelling personal stories that give meaning to each photograph, Abell's artistry opens our eyes to the dazzling varieties of gardens.

• 208 pages; more than 125 full-color photographs
• 11" x 10"
• Hardcover
• © 2000