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Author Nicolson, Adam, 1957-

Title Sissinghurst : an unfinished history / Adam Nicolson.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  630.9422 NICOLSON    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  630.9422 NIC    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 341 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Note "The quest to restore a working farm at Vita Sackville-West's legendary garden" -- T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-332) and index.
Contents Sissinghurst -- Inheritance -- The idea -- Origins -- Testing -- Occupation -- Rejection -- Glory -- Disintegration -- Acceptance -- Admiration -- Renewal.
Summary 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.
Subject Sissinghurst Castle (England) -- History.
Historic farms -- Conservation and restoration -- England.
Family farms -- England -- History.
Farm life -- England -- History.
ISBN 9780670021734
0670021733
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