Sissinghurst, an Unfinished History The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West's Legendary Garden

Name: Sissinghurst, an Unfinished History The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West's Legendary Garden
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ISBN: 9780670021734

ISBN-10: 0670021733

ISBN-13: 9780670021734

Edition: 2010

Authors: Adam Nicolson

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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…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 5/6/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Adam Nicolson is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives at Sissinghust Castle in Kent.




Sissinghurst



Inheritance



The Idea



Origins



Testing



Occupation



Rejection



Glory



Disintegration



Acceptance



Admiration



Renewal


Acknowledgments


Illustration Credits


Note on Sources


Index