Sissinghurst
an unfinished history
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Word Count
85,500 words, Guess
Page Count
342 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL23983187M
- Internet Archivesissinghurstunfi0000nico
- Internet Archivesissinghurstunfi0000nico_l3k6
- ISBN-100007240546
- ISBN-139780007240548
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2009396314
- OCLC Control Number230989025
- Better World Books9780007240548
Classifications
- DDC728.810942238
- LCCSB466.G8 N53 2008
- LCCNA7745
Description
"The story of this piece of land, an estate in the Weald of Kent, is told here for the first time from the very beginning. Adam Nicolson, who now lives there, has uncovered remarkable new findings about its history as a medieval manor and great sixteenth-century house, from the days of its decline as an eighteenth-century prison to a flourishing Victorian farm and on to the creation, by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, of a garden in a weed-strewn wreck. Alongside his recovery of the past, Adam Nicolson wanted something else: for the land at Sissinghurst to live again, to become the landscape of orchards, cattle, fruit and sheep he remembered from his boyhood. Could that living frame of a mixed farm be brought back to what had turned into monochrome fields of chemicalised wheat and oilseed rape? Against the odds, he was going to try"--
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