The road to Le Tholonet : a French garden journey
Don, Monty2013
Book
This is not a book about French gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way. Owners, intrigues, affairs, marriages, feuds, thwarted ambitions and desires, the largely unnamed ordinary gardeners, wars, plots and natural disasters run through every garden older than a generation or two and fill every corner of the grander historical ones. Families marry. Gardeners are poached. Political allegiances forged and shattered. The human trail crosses from garden to garden. They sit in their surrounding landscape, not as isolated islands but attached umbilically to it, sharing the geology, the weather, food, climate, local folklore, accent and cultural identity.
Main title:
The road to Le Tholonet : a French garden journey / Monty Don.
Author:
Don, Monty, author
Imprint:
London : Simon & Schuster, 2013.London : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Collation:
xviii, 285 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781471114571 (hbk)
Dewey class:
635.0944635.0944 DON635.0944DON
Language:
English
BRN:
996866