Sissinghurst : an unfinished history / Adam Nicolson.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Viking, c2010.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 341 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780670021734
- 0670021733
- SB466.G8 N53 2010
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Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves | SB466.G7 S57 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800074973 |
"The quest to restore a working farm at Vita Sackville-West's legendary garden"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sissinghurst -- Inheritance -- The idea -- Origins -- Testing -- Occupation -- Rejection -- Glory -- Disintegration -- Acceptance -- Admiration -- Renewal.
The grandson of Virginia Woolf's poet paramour Vita Sackville-West traces his passionate efforts to restore his family's celebrated garden, an effort that included a reinstatement of a working farm to grow food for more than 200,000 annual visitors.