The Cottage Garden Month-by-month by Jackie Bennett

The Cottage Garden Month-by-month by Jackie Bennett lands on the shelves of my shop.

David & Charles, 1996, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Colour Drawings; Diagrams; Tables; Plans;

From the cover: Many of us dream of having cottage garden, with a path winding to the front door through borders of sweetly-scented, old-fashioned flowers and beside walls smothered with roses and clematis. Informality and exuberance are the hallmarks of the cottage garden and these can be achieved, no matter where you live, through a relaxed, adaptable approach to planting, which is fully described in this book.

The Cottage Garden Month-by-Month is an invaluable guide to understanding and creating a traditional cottage garden. Set out to follow the calendar year, it has twelve chapters, each featuring an introduction to the month, instructions and checklists for seasonal tasks, profiles of plants in flower and detailed practical projects, such as making paths, using boundaries, choosing plants for arches, porches and pergolas all within the capabilities of the average gardener. Whether you want to relax under a shady arbour at the end of the day or have abundant fresh flowers to pick for the house, this book will show you how.

Illustrated with beautiful colour photography and artwork and clear line drawings throughout, The Cottage Garden Month-by-Month is a handbook for all gardeners, however modest or grand their cottage garden plans.

Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently sunned at the spine otherwise a very well presented copy.

Green boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 139 pages. Index. 10¾” x 8″.

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Sir Edmund Hillary and the People of Everest by Cynthia Russ Ramsay

Sir Edmund Hillary and the People of Everest by Cynthia Russ Ramsay lands on the shelves of my shop.

Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2002, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs;

From the cover: At 11:30 A. M. on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay congratulated themselves with a handshake and then a hearty embrace. At 29,035 feet above sea level, they were standing on top of the world. They were the first men to summit Mount Everest.

The story of their perilous ascent including even Hillarys final exhortation to himself, Ed, my boy, this is Everest; youve got to push it a bit harder! is vividly recounted here, in both words and photographs. But unlike other accounts, Sir Edmund Hillary & The People of Everest takes the conquest of the mountain as the beginning of the story, not its culmination.

For the thirty-three-year-old Hillary, climbing Mount Everest was indeed the beginning the beginning of a lifelong relationship with the indigenous people whose courage, skill, and generosity of spirit made Himalayan exploration possible: the Sherpas.

Using intimate photographs and personal interviews, photographer Anne B. Keiser and writer Cynthia Russ Ramsay first re-create the Sherpa world as it was before the trekkers arrived a tough, hand-fashioned existence under the ice-covered roof of the world, isolated from the technological advances that the twentieth century had brought to the West.

Once he came to know these generous and kindly people and to acknowledge the huge debt he and other Himalayan explorers owed them Hillary took on the delicate job of improving their lives without destroying their culture. Using a strictly grassroots approach, doing only what the Sherpas wanted us to do, Hillary brought them schools and hospitals. Ultimately, through the work of disciples like Mingma Norbu Sherpa, director of the Himalayan Division of the World Wildlife Fund, Hillary has helped the Sherpas find a way to preserve their fragile world without being subjugated to it. For Keiser and Ramsay, this Edmund Hillary battling almost single-handedly on behalf of his beloved Sherpas is the hero of Everest.

Introduction by: HRH Prince Philip

Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper which is lightly pulled at the head of the upper panel. Previous owners’ inscription to the first blank alongside a date. Text complete, clean and tight.

Navy Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 174 pages. 12¼” x 9½”.

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