Anticipated Exotic Garden Book Wins Prestigious Award 2011

The sequel-twin to award-winning book "Tropical Homes of the Eastern Caribbean", new EXOTIC GARDENS OF THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN now wins Silver Nautilus Award 2011. Publisher gives FREE CHAPTER to celebrate! End Quote

(1888PressRelease) May 29, 2011 - Elegant, hardcover books showing fine photography and featuring scenery and life styles in different parts of the globe have always been popular with the public. However, this particular, recently published book has much more to it.

It shows examples of living in peace with nature, and profiles people passionate about creating conscious living, wellness, and green values. Thanks to its positive energy, message, and highly inspirational top notch artistic photography - this book just won one of the most prestigious international book awards - Silver Nautilus Award 2011. This title is also a finalist at BOTYA and Benjamin Franklin Book Excellence awards - with winners to be announced in June, and a photograph from this book just won an award at IGPOTY (International Garden Photographer Of The Year) - an international competition in UK, organized among others by the famous KEW Gardens and Royal Gardens Society.

TO CELEBRATE THIS FINE AWARD, we are offering FREE chapter from this book for you. Simply click this link to download or open PDF with Diamond Gardens chapter - and instantly feel like being in St Lucia! (copy and paste this link to your browser) http://ozonezonebooks.blogspot.com/2011/04/nautilus-2011-awards.html

Exotic Gardens of the Eastern Caribbean already climbed to #1 best-seller position in tropical gardening category on Amazon, and gained 5-star reviews and endorsements. This award comes as highly flattering confirmation of book's fine values.

We read on Nautilus Award site:
"The Nautilus Awards recognizes Books and Audio Books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living & positive social change, while at the same time they stimulate the "imagination" and offer the reader "new possibilities" for a better life and a better world."

This book showcases the colorful and lush gardens of the area that fascinates people around the world - the Eastern Caribbean region. By the same token, it fills a significant gap among books of this type - for while there are books focusing on gardening and showcasing tropical gardens, they mostly deal with examples from Asia - like Bali or Thailand - but relatively very little is said about spectacular Caribbean gardens.

This happy, full of passion and sun book will take you to a number of selected islands of the West Indies: from the big Barbados, Grenada, to smaller St. Lucia, and to a less known St Vincent. You will explore diversified life-styles exemplified by a range of home gardens: From small, humble backyard gardens in villages of the Caribbean, to heritage houses with extensive landscaped gardens, to fascinating botanic gardens, to multi-million-dollar mansions surrounded by sumptuous tropical gardens, and finally, to amazing, vast exotic gardens created by renowned landscape designers. Then it ends with a simple garden of an organic grower and his message for respect of our Mother Nature. It's a display of fascinating samples selected from the wealth of styles and plants abounding in the region.

Think of this book as an exotic storyteller, offering you an opportunity to discover hide-away treasures in the midst of breathtaking, ever-new beauty of the Caribbean nature.

The award-winning authors, Derek Galon - experienced art photographer from Europe, and Margaret Gajek - seasoned art historian, gardening passionate, researcher and writer - teamed up to create a series of captivating books, of which "Exotic Gardens of the Eastern Caribbean" is the second one.

Because these enchanting gardens are intimately tied with their owners and creators, the authors have tried to present the various gardens as perceived through the eyes and personal experiences of the individuals who care for them.

You are invited to indulge yourself in savouring the seductive beauty of this region. Real gems of gardening, and the extraordinary people who are their owners, keepers, or creators, await you in this book to be discovered.

The book ends with an extra chapter - a step by step presentation in flower arrangements by experienced gardeners from Grenada.

It is also enriched by another dimension - a free audio CD with over-an-hour illustrative recordings of the Caribbean nature, designed as background sounds to give a fuller experience to all readers, and to virtually "bring them to the tropics".

There are also some additional advantages this book can offer. You can find there inspiration for gardening around your home; or, if you're looking for unique attractions and sightseeing ideas for your next holiday, it may provide you with answers. You can also meet there some charismatic, acclaimed gardeners and landscapers, should you need such contacts.

The manner of writing is light and anecdotal, with a very fresh and personal approach. The vivid pictures will stay in your memory. That's because this book was born of passion: the authors' passion for fine design, for life-stories, for nature - for beauty in every form.

The text was very thoroughly researched, to give readers both sound factual information, as well as many intriguing details, well beyond what such books generally offer. And the photographs are not only artistically beautiful but also highly professional and meticulously edited using revolutionary, new High Dynamic Range and Fusion techniques, for a juicier and more thrilling, spectacular effect.

The overall content, combined with the fine quality of print, makes this book an outstanding publication of its kind.
It is now available through various bookstores and on-line via Amazon.com in North America, as well as in Europe. And of course, it is offered in bookshops in the Caribbean.

For the reader's greater enjoyment and richer experience, additional material relating to the book is being offered on the publisher's web site (www.ozonezonebooks.com) - like playable audio excerpts from selected interviews, working photos, and more.

Ozone Zone Books is a small Canadian publisher specializing in photo books of architectural treasures and exotic gardens in remote, often hardto-access places. Additionally, world-wide location photography services are offered to clients looking for the best possible quality and artistic touch.

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