The glorious No.1 bestseller
Until the First World War, the estate gardens at Heligan were one of the glories of Cornwall. Thereafter, through growing neglect, they slipped gradually to sleep. This is the amazing story of their rediscovery and restoration, or the Victorian vision and ingenuity which first created that subtropical paradise, and of the modern obsession and improvisation which recreated it.
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The glorious No.1 bestseller, reissued in a sumptuous paperback edition.
Foreword xi John Fowles Acknowledgements xv Maps xviii Introduction: The Green Shroud 3(10) PART 1: ACT OF GOD The Big Blow 13(14) PART 2: ACTS OF FAITH Baptism of Fire 27(14) The Secret of the Thunderbox Room 41(10) The Rad from Gorran to Damascus 51(18) An Easter Opening 69(16) PART 3: ACTS OF MEN Drawing Back the Veil 85(18) Portraits on the Wall 103(10) The Plant Collectors 113(18) The Productive Gardens 131(20) Decline 151(8) The Cast Today 159(14) In the Shadows 173(8) Out Under the Spotlight 181(16) Lights, Camera, Action 197(12) Platform for a Voice 209(12) PART 4: THE FINAL ACT Spirit of Heligan 221(10) Postscript: The Fruits of Our Labours 231(12) Special Note to the Third Edition 243(2) Picture Acknowledgements 245
Tim Smit was born in 1954 in Scheveningen, Holland, and educated in the UK. After graduating from Durham University he worked as a county archaeologist before spending ten years as a record producer and composer, successful in Europe, the USA and Japan. In 1987 he and his family moved to Cornwall where, with John Nelson, he was to discover Heligan.
