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Prague Botanic Garden

• Title: The Gardener’s Year (In original version Zahradníkův rok)
• Author: Karel Čapek
• Edition: Praha : Městská knihovna v Praze, 2009.
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Karel Čapek (1890–1938) was a journalist, novelist, playwright, poet, translator, critic, philosopher, photographer and author of children’s books. Some of his most famous works include War with the Newts, R.U.R, An Atomic Phantasy: Krakatit and The Gardener’s Year. In the Gardener’s Year Čapek, a keen gardener himself, wittily and passionately talks about the work, successes and failures of a gardener in an unchanging cycle of the seasons.The Prague Botanic Garden is located in city part Prague-Troja. Her best-known part is the Fata Morgana tropical greenhouse and just in front of him the trail is situated.