University of Oxford Botanic Garden Middle-earth. In the Evelyn Waugh novel "Brideshead Revisited", Lord Sebastian Flyte takes Charles Ryder "to see the ivy" soon after they first meet. As he says, "Oh, Charles, what a lot you have to learn! There's a beautiful arch there and more different kinds of ivy than I knew existed. I don't know where I should be without the Botanical gardens" (Chapter One). In Philip Pullman's trilogy of novels "His Dark Materials", a bench in the back of the garden is one of the locations/objects that stand parallel in the two different worlds that the protagonists, Lyra Belacqua and Will
Erin Ryder Erin Ryder Erin Ryder (born August 14, 1980) is an American television host, television producer, adventurer, explorer and photographer. She was a co-executive producer and on-camera investigator for Syfy's hit reality television series "Destination Truth", a weekly one-hour show filmed in remote locations around the world that explored some of the world's mysteries and unexplained phenomena. She also served as a host and co-executive producer on the series "Chasing UFOs" for the National Geographic Channel. She most recently hosted a 5 episode web series called "Myth Explorer" for NBC and Universal Studios. Ryder was born in New York City, and