Two members of a movie crew arrive at a ghost town to shoot a picture. Two desperate criminals have arrived there ahead of the movie crew, but the Hollywood types think the two crooks are a practical joke

Gardening is rich in tradition, and many gardens are explicitly designed to refer to or honour the past. But garden design is also rich in innovation, and in The Making of Place John Dixon Hunt explores the wide varieties of approaches, aesthetics and achievements in garden design throughout the world today. 
From imposing sculptures discovered in woodlands or on hilly trails to community gardens, and along disused rail tracks to ones made on inhospitable seashores, this b...

A story about a bumbling small town assistant police chief who's not as dumb as he seems to be. A wanted man is captured and later found hanging in his cell. The program has a surprise ending.

A young girl about to inherit a fortune, is going mad. A picture of a man in her room comes closer and closer to her. There is a picture hanging on a wall, you look at it casually, an extraordinary picture you’ll say skilfully done, look at those fine brush stokes those superb colors, but isn’t the subject matter a little bizarre? It is something more than just bizarre, but let us begin from the beginning with the death of Benjamin Powell.

The work of English writer, gardener and diarist John Evelyn is of great historical value. His most famous work, his Diary, which he kept throughout his life, is considered an invaluable source of information on more than fifty years of social, cultural, religious and political life in seventeenth-century England. But Evelyn’s work is often overshadowed by the literary contributions of his contemporary and friend Samuel Pepys.John Dixon Hunt’s biography takes a fresh look at the lif...

The Blackout Killer is hiding somewhere aboard a ship. Olivia De Havilland stars as Judith Webster, who found herself embarked upon a journey into darkness. It is 1939, shortly before England and Germany were at war. Judith was in London serving as travelling companion to wealthy American Mrs Prescott. When Mrs Prescott died, Judith had promised to arrange her a burial at sea. It was on this journey that she learned of the “Blackout Killer” and feared that he was the man she had befriended...

A man and his strangely silent son are on the run from the police.

In the twelfth century, a French poet wrote a verse romance about a young knight who witnesses a mysterious procession centered on a radiant vessel, a "grail." Left unfinished, the poem inspired other writers of prose and verse, until the story was completely rewritten into the Arthurian romances, in which the vessel becomes a relic of the Last Supper, the Holy Grail.For hundreds of years, the Grail story has haunted the western imagination. But the original medieval texts are full...

Most books on the history of gardens describe the way that gardens have been created; by contrast, The Afterlife of Gardens examines the way that gardens have been experienced. Using examples from many sites around the world, John Dixon Hunt examines responses to gardens, from Renaissance sites to Baroque creations to modern motorway landscaping. Examining how a garden has been experienced extends its history beyond the physical into cultural terms, and the author describes how th...

The extended plan of the Macmillan Casebook series embraces two categories of book. Individual Authors: Here each volume contains classic of English literature of a significant modern work; occasional volumes deal with closely related works by the same writer. General Themes: This category includes volumes on literary 'schools' and genres.Each Casebook brings together the best modern criticisms, along with a selection of earlier reviews and comment. The introduction discusses the v...

Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics, Tunnard called for a "new technique" in garden design that emphasized an integration of form and purpose. "The functional garden avoids the extremes both of the sentimental expressionism of the wild garden and the intellectual classicis...

Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in poverty or are otherwise excluded, for instance by gender-based discrimination. Its effective application therefore requires ongoing dialogue with and the strong engagement of men and women from poor marginal farming communities.This book discusses opportunities afforded by effective knowled...