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More imagesGreen Grows the City
Beverley Nichols the story of a London garden / with a foreword by Roy C. Dicks.
Language: English
Published by Timber Press, Incorporated, Portland, Oregon 2006
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Condition: As New. First Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover Condition: Fine Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped dustwrapper now in protective mylar. Clean, tight and unmarked. Summary: Anyone who has ever created a garden knows that it is a process replete with drama: there's the feverish excitement of drawing up plans and makin…g lists of plants; the bleak depression of realising that the plans will have to be altered. The "Eureka!" moment when a brilliant solution presents itself; the grim frustration of dealing with meddlesome neighbors and recalcitrant plants. For Beverley Nichols (1898-1983), making a new garden in a London suburb in the years just before World War II was positively operatic in its emotional trajectory. Fans of Beverley Nichols will find in Green Grows the City the same elements that have delighted them in his other books: the wit, the style, the cats, and of course Gaskin, gentleman's gentleman extraordinaire. Those new to Nichols are in for a rare treat x, 290 p : ill with index.
