David Picard is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research at New University of Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of La Reunion, Indian Ocean and has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

- a very competently crafted book - the author should be congratulated - [a] wonderfully fluent, evocative writing style.A" * Jan Harwell, Oxford Brookes University

• Foreword Nelson Graburn Preface Introduction: Penguins in the Paris Underground Part I: Aestetic Transfigurations Chapter 1. Tourism and Magic Chapter 2. Creole Beautiful Chapter 3. Cultivating Society as Human Garden Part II. The Hospitality of the Garden Chapter 4. Hospitality and Love Chapter 5. Bougainvilleas at the Riverside Chapter 6. Poachers in the Coral Garden Part III. Cultivating the Human Garden Chapter 7. History as an Aesthetics of Everyday Life Chapter 8. Towards a Global Gardening State Bibliography Endnotes

David Picard is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research at New University of Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of La Reunion, Indian Ocean and has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

- a very competently crafted book - the author should be congratulated - [a] wonderfully fluent, evocative writing style.A" * Jan Harwell, Oxford Brookes University

• Foreword Nelson Graburn Preface Introduction: Penguins in the Paris Underground Part I: Aestetic Transfigurations Chapter 1. Tourism and Magic Chapter 2. Creole Beautiful Chapter 3. Cultivating Society as Human Garden Part II. The Hospitality of the Garden Chapter 4. Hospitality and Love Chapter 5. Bougainvilleas at the Riverside Chapter 6. Poachers in the Coral Garden Part III. Cultivating the Human Garden Chapter 7. History as an Aesthetics of Everyday Life Chapter 8. Towards a Global Gardening State Bibliography Endnotes