ENGLISH

The Road to Le Tholonet

Book information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Year
2013
ISBN
9781471114571, 9781471114595
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3263535 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

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. Th.

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