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List Price: $49.95Price: $9.75 You Save: $40.20 (80%)Prices subject to change.
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303632766
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6303632769
Label: Perennial Ent.
Manufacturer: Perennial Ent.
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Perennial Ent.
Release Date: November 16, 1999
Sales Rank: 27463
Studio: Perennial Ent.
Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 1993
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Imagine the world's most elegant tour guide, illuminating some of the world's most breathtaking vistas. The Emmy-winning PBS series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn features the graceful film icon, in her last screen appearance before her death in 1993, as host of a tour of the world's most elegant and spectacular gardens. Hepburn herself was a gardening enthusiast (at least one rose and one tulip have been named for her), and her passion for the subject will entrance even those who struggle to keep a pot of herbs on the windowsill. The chapters are organized around type of garden (rose gardens, formal, country, etc.) as well as geography (Japanese gardens, tropical), and within each segment, Hepburn, and her co-narrator, Michael York, outline the history, details and art behind all manner of gorgeous spreads.
The "Formal Gardens" segment, for instance, spans nearly 3,000 years, with the original gardens of the pharaohs providing fruit, shade trees, even herbs for embalming. The Persians introduced the concept of pleasure gardens, influenced by Islamic belief of heaven as a vast, restorative garden. The classical Greeks and Romans added statuary to the formal ideal; the Italians, cascading fountains; the French, the idea, embodied at Versailles, of man's mastery over nature. Every garden is breathtaking in its own way, yet there are principles that even a novice gardener can absorb: the notion of architecture and structure, inside which the "furniture" of flowers and other plants, as suggested by the British garden expert Penelope Hobhouse, can be placed just so. Along the way, and around the world through history, Hepburn is a compelling guide whose obvious passion for the subject makes the series as riveting as any nature documentary. Extras in the Special Tribute Edition include a documentary, In Pursuit of Beauty, in which Hepburn visits more than 30 locations (including Giverny, known as Monet's flower garden). It also includes an interview with Hepburn and a splendid soundtrack featuring selections by Debussy, Vivaldi, and Berlioz. --A.T. Hurley
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This Book is one that any person
tha love gardens, should have.
I really recomend it.
Martha
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In this moment I live in Spain, European Union. I have bought these MARVELLOUS DVDs from other sellers. I got them in a week more or less. In this occasion, it is a month since I paid them. I expect to get them as soon as possible. They contain the last images of Audrey Hepburn.
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EXCELLENT DVD I LOVE AUDREY HEPBURN AND THE GARDENS WERE JUST BEAUTIFUL AND DELIGHTFUL. I ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE
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I bought this dvd set as a present for my 80 year old mother. She absolutely adores it. She is a life long gardener and has watched every segment carefully. If fact, she insists on waiting between segments so she can digest what she has just watched. This clearly is a program for those who loves gardens!
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I bought this recently and have only recently had the time to sit and luxuriate in it!! It is like being in a church, temple, or mosque!!! Truly heaven on earth this DVD is, so soothing and relaxing. I love the last disc with the orchestral selections played in their entirety, and of course, who can match the warm and intelligent beauty of Audrey Hepburn, truly she was a gift of the Divine Creator, just like these beautiful gardens!!
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