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Title Sissinghurst : an unfinished history / Adam Nicolson.
Author Nicolson, Adam, 1957-
Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2010.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  630.9422 NIC    Check Shelves
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Edition 1st American ed.
Description 341 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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 Garden (England) -- History.
Historic farms -- Conservation and restoration -- England.
Family farms -- England -- History.
Farm life -- England -- History.
ISBN 9780670021734 : $27.95
0670021733
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