Seed to Dust
A mindful, seasonal tale of a year in the garden
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2022
Vintage (Verlag)
978-1-5291-1249-8 (ISBN)
Vintage (Verlag)
978-1-5291-1249-8 (ISBN)
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2021*
'A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden' Daily Mail
Marc Hamer has designed and nurtured 12 acres of garden for over two decades.
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2021*
'A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden' Daily Mail
Beautifully illustrated, Seed to Dust is a reflective and restorative account of a life lived in harmony with nature.
Marc Hamer has nurtured the same twelve acres of garden for decades. It's rarely visited so he is the only person who fully knows its secrets. But it's not his garden, and his relationship with its owner is at once distant and curiously intimate.
In Seed to Dust, Marc takes us month-by-month through his experiences both working in the garden and outside it. We encounter new plants and wildlife, gardening folklore and the joys of manual work; we learn, too, about Marc's path from homelessness to family contentment, and the cycles of change that run through both the garden's life and our own.
'An absorbing combination of memoir, gardening folklore and natural history' Country Life
'Life-affirming... Absorbing' Sue Stuart-Smith, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Well-Gardened Mind
'A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden' Daily Mail
Marc Hamer has designed and nurtured 12 acres of garden for over two decades.
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2021*
'A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden' Daily Mail
Beautifully illustrated, Seed to Dust is a reflective and restorative account of a life lived in harmony with nature.
Marc Hamer has nurtured the same twelve acres of garden for decades. It's rarely visited so he is the only person who fully knows its secrets. But it's not his garden, and his relationship with its owner is at once distant and curiously intimate.
In Seed to Dust, Marc takes us month-by-month through his experiences both working in the garden and outside it. We encounter new plants and wildlife, gardening folklore and the joys of manual work; we learn, too, about Marc's path from homelessness to family contentment, and the cycles of change that run through both the garden's life and our own.
'An absorbing combination of memoir, gardening folklore and natural history' Country Life
'Life-affirming... Absorbing' Sue Stuart-Smith, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Well-Gardened Mind
Marc Hamer was born in the North of England and moved to Wales over thirty years ago. After spending a period homeless, then working on the railway, he returned to education and studied fine art in Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. He has worked in art galleries, marketing, graphic design and taught creative writing in a prison before becoming a gardener. Both his books, A Life in Nature; or How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust have been longlisted for the Wainwright Prize.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.01.2022 |
|---|---|
| Illustrationen | Jonathan Ashworth |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 130 x 199 mm |
| Gewicht | 360 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5291-1249-4 / 1529112494 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5291-1249-8 / 9781529112498 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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