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A Gentle Plea for Chaos
Mirabel Osler
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Description for A Gentle Plea for Chaos
Paperback. All consuming and witty look at one woman's garden Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 166. 192 pages. Describes the way the author's garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. In this title, she suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WM. Dimension: 144 x 197 x 17. Weight: 142.
In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the 19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks. She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award.
In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the 19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks. She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408817896
SKU
V9781408817896
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99-50
About Mirabel Osler
Mirabel Osler is the critically acclaimed author of A Breath from Elsewhere and the classic A Gentle Plea for Chaos. She lives in Shropshire.
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