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The author, an American journalist, recounts her Italian sojourn with her sculptor husband, painting a vivid portrait of the house they restored and the garden that transformed their lives. 30,000 first printing.
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From the eighth to the third centuries BC, the Etruscans were among the most powerful people on earth. They worked the metals of the Tolfa hills, laid roads for their carts and developed an excellent system of irrigation--criss-crossing their farmland with miles and miles of hand-dug tunnels. By the time American journalist Joan Marble arrived in Italy in the 1960s, Etruria had endured Roman invasion, malaria and the Black Death, the subsequent centuries of poverty leaving the area rife with impassable roads and political corruption. But Joan fell in love with Etruria, seeing it as the perfect place to grow a dream garden.
The author found her calling at an early age, tending her first garden at eight years old. When she went to college to study landscape architecture she found that the details in the horticultural textbooks bored her. She chose instead to study English and eventually became a journalist, reporting on the Rose Garden at the White House. In Notes from an Italian Garden, Joan recounts how--together with her husband--she built a house and grew a garden in the most unlikely of settings. Her tale is told with a modest pride, the beauty of her prose evoking the splendour and grace of the home she occupied for more than 30 years. The book is also a study of the rugged people of Southern Etruria and the friends with whom Joan swapped plants and advice. It is illustrated with the charming drawings of Corinna Sargood, who visited Italy in order to see Marble's creations firsthand. --Daren King
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" This description of making heaven on earth ... is a delight." - "Independent on Sunday" "From the Trade Paperback edition."
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Thirty years ago journalist Joan Marble and her sculptor husband, Robert Cook, bought an unpromising piece of land near the little hamlet of Canale, north of Rome where the ancient Etruscans once lived. Here they built a house and, more important, set out to start a wonderful garden. All was not easy, however. They faced blank incomprehension from the local inhabitants. "Why do you want to have a garden here?" they were asked. "There's no water, the ground is like cement, it's too cold in winter and too hot in summer, it never rains. . . ." But Joan and Robert's enthusiasm for the land, their ignorance of the obstacles that faced them, their downright obstinacy and the unexpected friends who helped them -- all served to conquer the intransigent terrain. "I fell in love with Etruria one chilly evening in the middle of winter," says Joan. "They were having a New Year's Eve festival in a little town near Campagnano, and a group of local boys dressed in Renaissance costumes were marching in a torchlight parade down the main street. As I stood there in the cold watching the flames lurching to the sky, I realized that I felt very much at home in this ancient place. If ever we should decide to move to the country, this was the kind of place I would choose." Inspirational, aspirational, enchanting -- this is an account of a passion for a place and an obsession with a garden that will charm all who love Italy, gardening, and life. Remainder Mark. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. Seller Inventory # 123579845
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. With b/w illustrations by Corinna Sargood. The binding is tight with minor shelf wear, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. Small pen mark along top edge. Dust jacket in a mylar cover. 348pp. Seller Inventory # NOWmarNFI