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How to Grow Food: A Wartime Guide
Doreen Wallace
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Description for How to Grow Food: A Wartime Guide
Hardback. Facsimile of a wartime book on growing your own vegetables, written by a popular novelist of the time. Num Pages: 128 pages, black and white photographs and line drawings. BIC Classification: WMPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 282. A Wartime Guide. 128 pages, black and white photographs and line drawings. Facsimile of a wartime book on growing your own vegetables, written by a popular novelist of the time. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WMPF. Dimension: 192 x 143 x 18. Weight: 278.
In 1940 Doreen Wallace, prolific novelist, academic, social campaigner and farmer, wrote a book for Batsford on vegetable growing, as part of the publisher's iconic Home Front Handbook series. With its chatty, readable writing style and its beautiful Brian Cook cover, the book became a wartime classic, invaluable for everyone growing fruit and vegetables at home to help the war effort. This reissue of that important book retains all the appeal of the original. As well as being a great read, it contains a wealth of information that is still useful for vegetable ... Read more
In 1940 Doreen Wallace, prolific novelist, academic, social campaigner and farmer, wrote a book for Batsford on vegetable growing, as part of the publisher's iconic Home Front Handbook series. With its chatty, readable writing style and its beautiful Brian Cook cover, the book became a wartime classic, invaluable for everyone growing fruit and vegetables at home to help the war effort. This reissue of that important book retains all the appeal of the original. As well as being a great read, it contains a wealth of information that is still useful for vegetable ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pavilion Books
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849940498
SKU
V9781849940498
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Doreen Wallace
Doreen Wallace (1897-1989) was a prolific novelist and also wrote short stories, poems and non-fiction. In her lifetime she was a social campaigner, artist, teacher and academic. She was also a farmer, with a particular expertise in growing vegetables.
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