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View from a Shed: Four Seasons as an Urban Farmer - Hardcover

Wale, Michael

 
9780749082246: View from a Shed: Four Seasons as an Urban Farmer
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0749082240 ISBN 13: 9780749082246
Publisher: Allison & Busby, 2006

Synopsis

'View from a Shed' is not a book about gardening. It is a book about people who garden. People like Mrs Fuller, almost 100 years old, who remembers watching supervised Italian POWs during WW1, demolish the local manor house; General Safi who was the Protector of the King of Afghanistan but fled his native country after being imprisoned and tortured; and Michael Wale who has had an allotment since 1980 and has an obsession with compost. Allotments have always been a huge part of urban life and it is that history that informs Wale's narrative. As he takes the reader on a tour of the seasons in his allotment world, he engages with his fellow gardeners and tells their stories. The result is a warm and tender story of flowers and food; sheds and greenhouses; gardeners and local councils. For everyone in the big city who has dreamt about the country life.

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Synopsis

'View from a Shed' is not a book about gardening. It is a book about people who garden. People like Mrs Fuller, almost 100 years old, who remembers watching supervised Italian POWs during WW1, demolish the local manor house; General Safi who was the Protector of the King of Afghanistan but fled his native country after being imprisoned and tortured; and Michael Wale who has had an allotment since 1980 and has an obsession with compost. Allotments have always been a huge part of urban life and it is that history that informs Wale's narrative. As he takes the reader on a tour of the seasons in his allotment world, he engages with his fellow gardeners and tells their stories. The result is a warm and tender story of flowers and food; sheds and greenhouses; gardeners and local councils. For everyone in the big city who has dreamt about the country life.

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Publisher
Allison & Busby
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0749082240
ISBN 13 
9780749082246
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288