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A Garden in the Hills
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9780857907431
Umbreit-Nr.: 6329091
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 192 S., 6.38 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 08.08.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- From the author of the Highland classic A Croft in the Hills, this illustrated book celebrates one of mankind's oldest pleasures. Month by month we are taken through a year in the life of Katharine Stewart's garden. The circle of the seasons is luminously evoked as we are told of the practicalities of gardening, cooking, bee-keeping and wine-making. Peppered with warm, personal insights, good humour and a love of living things, the joy of nature has never sounded so rewarding.
- Kurztext
- The author of the classic A Croft in the Hills takes us through a year in her Scottish Highlands garden and its many delights. This illustrated book celebrates one of humankind's oldest pleasures. Month by month, we are taken through a year in the life of Katharine Stewart's garden outside the old schoolhouse in Abriachan, Scotland, where she lives with her husband and daughter. The circle of the seasons is luminously evoked as we are told of the practicalities of gardening, cooking, beekeeping, and winemaking. From a winner of a Saltire Society Award for her contribution to the understanding of Scottish Highland culture, and peppered with warm personal insights, good humor, and a love of living things, this account of the joy of nature reminds us how rewarding it is to be outdoors. ';Evocative and charming.' Scottish Book Collector
- Autorenportrait
- Katharine Stewart was born in 1914 in Reading. Following the Second World War and after a spell running a hotel in Edinburgh she moved with her husband, Sam Stewart, and daughter Hilda, to the croft at Abriachan near Loch Ness, where she began her writing career with A Croft in the Hills. Later she trained as a teacher before, on the death of her husband, becoming the local postmistress at Abriachan. She died in 2013 and is survived by her daughter, Hilda.