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Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

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Description for Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History Paperback. A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBKESK; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 372.

A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson’s own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst.

Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended? Has its success over the last thirty years come at a price? Is Sissinghurst everything it could be?

The story of this piece of land, an estate in the Weald of ... Read more

Alongside his recovery of the past, Adam Nicolson wanted something else: for the land at Sissinghurst to live again, to become the landscape of orchards, cattle, fruit and sheep he remembered from his boyhood. Could that living frame of a mixed farm be brought back to what had turned into monochrome fields of chemicalised wheat and oilseed rape? Against the odds, he was going to try.

This paperback edition will be fully updated to cover the first year of Adam Nicolson’s endeavour to revive the estate and return it to the glories of its past. More than just a personal biography of a place, this book is the story of taking an inheritance and steering it in a new direction, just as an entrepreneur might take hold of a company, or just as all of us might want to take our dreams and make them real.

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Product Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007240555
SKU
V9780007240555
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About Adam Nicolson
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.This is his fifth book for HarperCollins – his previous five being ‘Arcadia’ (‘Earls of Paradise’ in hardback), ‘Men of Honour’, ‘Sea Room’, ‘Power and Glory’ and ... Read more

Reviews for Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History
‘A masterpiece of rural romanticism, told with shameless lyricism…the vision is one of nature, art and human history in glorious coalition…uplifting.’ Sunday Times ‘Unusual, impassioned and lucidly written…a gripping but serious history of Sissinghurst Castle.’ Sunday Telegraph ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History


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