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After a career as a landscape designer, specializing in waterfalls of natural rock, Keir Davidson has written books on subjects ranging from the history of Zen gardens in Japan to the poet Coleridge's ground-breaking fell walks of the early nineteenth century. For more than twenty years he has been associated with Woburn Abbey, initially as a designer of waterfalls and subsequently as a landscape historian, and he is the author of Woburn Abbey: The Park and Gardens (Pimpernel Press, 2016), described by John Martin Robinson in Country Life as 'the best country-house history published in recent years'.
Paints a moving portrait of a long and successful marriage enriched by a shared passion of the Arts, gardening and wild landscapes that reflected - and indeed, influenced - the spirit of the Romantic age. Enlivened with many images and extracts from contemporary sources, the book is also a fascinating study of Georgian Britain. * Country Life * A lavish new volume offers a fascinating and comprehensive insight into the part the strath played in pioneering the Romantic Age...it is quality all through, its 560 pages weighing a ton and so many of them crammed with exquisite illustrations. * Strathspey & Badenoch Herald * Davidson's biography of the duke and duchess is a richly researched and detailed study of two important personalities and patrons of arts and sciences in Regency Britain. In their multifarious activities and interests, they embody the questing, Romantic spirit of the age, here vividly brought to life. * Burliington Magazine *
