Ursula Buchan

Broschiertes Buch

A Green and Pleasant Land

How England's Gardeners Fought the Second World War

Beschreibung

Gardening in wartime Britain was a part of the fight for freedom. This book tells the story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged and cajoled its citizens to grow their own fruit and vegetables.

Autor

Ursula Buchan studied modern history at Cambridge University, before training as a horticulturist at the RHS Gardens, Wisley and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She wrote a gardening column for a succession of national newspapers, including the Observer, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph, as well as The Spectator, for more than twenty-five years. Shehas published fifteen books and won two major writing awards from the Garden Media Guild. She was recently awarded the Garden Media Guild's Gardening Columnist of the Year 2011.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornerstone
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 127mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9780099558668
• ISBN-10: 0099558661
• Artikelnr.: 39594147