Robert Sackville-West

Inheritance

The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating memoir of an extraordinary family told through the vast, four hundred year old house, Knole

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Paperbacks / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 36213
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 258g
• ISBN-13: 9781408809686
• ISBN-10: 1408809680
• Artikelnr.: 32026760

Autorenporträt

After studying History at Oxford University, Robert Sackville-West worked in publishing, founding Toucan Books in 1985, which creates illustrated non-fiction books for an international market. He now chairs Knole Estates, the property and investment company which runs the Sackville family's interests at Knole. In 2008, he and his wife and three children moved in the house, which has been occupied by the Sackville family for 400 years.

Rezensionen

'It has the deep inward gaiety of some very old woman who has always been beautiful, who has had many lovers and seen many generations come and go, smiled wisely over their sorrows and their joys, and learnt an imperishable secret of tolerance and humour' Vita Sackville-West