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A Time to Plant: Life and Gardening at Holker

Door Hugh Cavendish

Categorie	Tuin & Tuinieren
Boeknummer	#336959-XB28
Titel	A Time to Plant: Life and Gardening at Holker
Auteur	Cavendish, Hugh
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Frances Lincoln Limited Publishers
Jaar van uitgave	2012
ISBN10	0711232849
ISBN13	9780711232846
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original green boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, map on endpapers, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour photographs, large 8vo.
Samenvatting	At once a history of Holker Hall in Cumbria, the story of a family, a life, a community and an exploration of continuity with the past and adaptation to the modern age. Hugh Cavendish, Baron Cavendish of Furness, owner of Holker Hall in Cumbria, writes about the history of Holker, which dates back to the sixteenth century and has never been bought or sold but has passed by inheritance through the family line, with each generation leaving its impressions. He writes too about his family - his grandparents who, faced with 'serious financial embarrassment' sat down with a list to find savings and 'having identified essentials, they agreed to give up taking Country Life and having hot water and lemon after dinner' - but still thought it not unreasonable to plan to divert a river to run throug... (Lees verder)h the park; his mother ('relations with my mother were never good, and often spectacularly bad'); his aunts (collectively identified as the 'Aunt Heap'). He describes his own life, as a child at Holker ('when I look back I allow myself the indulgence of believing I was not quite as stupid as my schoolmasters held me to be; nor quite as lazy) and later as the owner of Holker, finding a way of managing huge resources and responsibilities and also immense debt. And, of course, he writes about the garden.
Pagina's	272
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 9,00

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