Des Kennedy

Heart & Soil

The Revolutionary Good of Gardens

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Writer, environmentalist and gardener Des Kennedy has gathered together his best, most outrageous and most contemplative articles and essays of the past decade into a book full of playful wit and insight.Kennedy recounts one newspaper's April Fool's Day prank that had men across the UK buying heather in order to propagate a poor-man's Viagra, expands on his trials creating a sod sloped roof, admits he once wanted to write a stump-puller's guide to the universe and contemplates the dark beauty-and rat feces smell-of a voodoo lily. The articles are tied together with Kennedy's assertion that gardening is a revolutionary act of maintaining harmo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-55017-634-6
EAN: 9781550176346
Produktnummer: 21821551
Verlag: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'481 KB

Über den Autor

Des Kennedy is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, author and environmental activist. He is the author of four books of essays including a memoir, The Passionate Gardener, and three novels including Climbing Patrick's Mountain. Noted as one of the most influential personalities on the Canadian gardening scene, Kennedy writes a regular column for BCLiving magazine and has been a columnist for the Globe and Mail. He lives on Denman Island, BC.