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Sissinghurst An Unfinished History
by Nicolson, Adam
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0007240554
- ISBN 13
- 9780007240555
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: HarperPress. 2009. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 358 pages. . 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover.
Synopsis
A bestselling author's passionate memoir about restoring life to one of the world's greatest gardens Sissinghurst Castle is a jewel in the English countryside. Its chief attraction is its celebrated garden, designed in the 1930s by the poet Vita Sackville-West, lover of Virginia Woolf. As a boy, Adam Nicolson, Sackville-West's grandson, spent his days romping through Sissinghurst's woods, streams, and fields. In this book, he returns to the place of his bucolic youth and finds that the estate, now operated by Britain's National Trust, has lost something precious. It is still unquestionably a place of calm and beauty but, he asks, where is the working farm, the orchards, the cattle and sheep? Nicolson convinces the Trust to embrace a simple idea: Grow lunch for the two hundred thousand annual visitors. Sissinghurst is a personal biography of a place and an inspiring story of one man's quest to return a remarkable landscape to its best, most useful purpose. Nicolson is an entertaining and charming writer and this book will capture fans of Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle .
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB317566
- Title
- Sissinghurst An Unfinished History
- Author
- Nicolson, Adam
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0007240554
- ISBN 13
- 9780007240555
- Publisher
- HarperPress
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening;
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Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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