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Adam Nicolson's powerful memoir discloses the history of 1 of Europe's most famous landscapes and the ongoing struggle over its future. From lavish palace for Elizabethan nobles to dreary jailhouse for 18th-century prisoners of battle, from well-manicured country house for a string of arrived households to weed-choked mess up, Sissinghurst, in Kent, is becoming one of the very most illustrious estates in Great britain - and its own future may prove to be just as intriguing as its recent. Within the 1930s, British poet Vita Sackville-West and her hubby, Harold Nicolson, attained land that experienced once been possessed by Vita's ancestors. Together they created elaborate gardens filled with roses, apple trees and shrubs, vivid plants, and scenic pathways lined with hedges and green brick walls. Vita, a gardening correspondent for the Observer and a close friend of Virginia Woolf, exposed Sissinghurst to the public. But the flourishing working farm started to change after her death. Her boy, Nigel, instituted sweeping changes, including transferring ownership of the property to Britain's National Rely upon 1967 to avoid intensive taxation. For publisher Adam Nicolson, the grandson of Harold and Vita, Sissinghurst was always more than a tourist interest; it was his home. Being a boy, Nicolson hiked the same paths that Roman conquerors walked centuries before. With wistful creativity, fascination with natural beauty, and link with the land, Nicolson has came back home to revive Sissinghurst's glory. His voyage to recreate a ecological and functioning farm, despite level of resistance from the National Trust, makes for a engaging memoir of family, background, and the powerful romance between people and nature.
