{"product_id":"9781905119530","title":"'A Veritable Eden'. The Manchester Botanic Garden: A History","description":"The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience \"not unlike a fashionable resort\". Today the Garden is all but forgotten and only the former entrance gates and a street name remain. This book, illustrated with many contemporary engravings and postcards, charts the history of the Garden; its international reputation in horticultural developments and many floral triumphs; its recurrent financial crises and ultimate degeneration into a venue for cat and dog shows and final conversion to a doomed amusement park. Ann Brooks studied Pharmacy at Manchester University followed by a varied career in hospital pharmacy. Her great love of gardening and the history of the gardening movement led her to return to academia and she completed a PhD in 2007 on The Manchester Botanic Garden and the Movement for Subscription Botanic Gardens. She is the co-author of a number of papers on the history of Manchester and is currently writing a book on the movement for subscription botanic gardens and conducting research on Victorian villa gardens.","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182404026608,"sku":"9781905119530","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781905119530_p0.jpg?v=1763615275","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781905119530","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}