The Road to Le Tholonet
Don, Monty
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. Th.
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Year:
2013
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster UK
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
1471114597
ISBN 13:
9781471114595
File:
EPUB, 3.11 MB
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english, 2013