Laura Simon - Dear Mr. Jefferson Letters from a Nantucket Garde
| Schrijver: | Laura Simon |
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| Titel: | Dear Mr. Jefferson Letters from a Nantucket Gardener |
| ISBN: | 9780385333399 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Random House Publishing Group |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 1999, Paperback, 224p |
| Prijs: | € 6,00 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 3,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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\"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culure of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.\"\n--Thomas Jefferson\nAn 18th-century statesman, a thoroughly modern gardener, a slightly one-sided correspondence on seeds, soil and the art of living...\nFor years, novelist Laura Simon had been building a garden around her Nantucket home, nurturing onions from wispy, pungent seedlings, spreading manure in early spring, harvesting in fall. And with the passage of time, she longed for a correspondent with whom to exchange reflections on seeds and soil, to share her stories and her passion for gardening. Unable to find such a person, Ms. Simon turned to the works of the eighteenth-century statesman and avid horticulturist Thomas Jefferson. Thus began an only slightly one-sided correspondence between Ms. Simon and the Monticello gardener himself. Interweaving her own observations about past and present with selected passages from Jefferson's writings, Simon has crafted a true epistolary adventure, filled with history and humor, a literate guide to gardening--and living a well-cultivated life.
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