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The Road to Le Tholonet: A French Garden Journey
Monty Don
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Description for The Road to Le Tholonet: A French Garden Journey
Paperback. Adiary of Monty Don's journey around France looking at the history of French gardens. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; WMB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way.
Owners, intrigues, affairs, marriages, feuds, thwarted ambitions and desires, the largely unnamed ordinary gardeners, wars, plots and natural disasters run through every garden older than a generation or two and fill every corner of the grander historical ones. Families marry. Gardeners are poached. Political allegiances forged and shattered. The human trail crosses from garden to garden.
They sit in their surrounding landscape, not as isolated islands but attached umbilically ... Read more
This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way.
Owners, intrigues, affairs, marriages, feuds, thwarted ambitions and desires, the largely unnamed ordinary gardeners, wars, plots and natural disasters run through every garden older than a generation or two and fill every corner of the grander historical ones. Families marry. Gardeners are poached. Political allegiances forged and shattered. The human trail crosses from garden to garden.
They sit in their surrounding landscape, not as isolated islands but attached umbilically ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781471114588
SKU
V9781471114588
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-98
About Monty Don
Monty Don is the presenter of Gardener's World on BBC TV, and the bestselling author of a number of books.
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