A Country Life [Import] [Paperback]

Roy Strong (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Books; New Ed edition (2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553814257
• ISBN-13: 978-0553814255
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,140,756 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A gentle country life, December 12, 1999

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G M WALSH (Yorkshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Country Life (Hardcover)

First published in Britain in 1994 A Country Life is a collection of the authors personal memories and experiences a number of which appeared as regular column pieces in Country Life magazine between 1989 and 1994.

Following the seasons it is a glorious portrait of the rural way of life of Roy Strong former Director of the V&A and his wife Julia Trevelyan Oman who provides the delightful pen and ink illustrations.

The scene is set by an essay Strong wrote for Hortus in 1992 in which he describes their house The Laskett in Herefordshire.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars vignettes of an English garden, July 1, 2008

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Julie B. "heart in the highlands" (chicago, il usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Country Life: At Home in the English Countryside (Hardcover)

I grew to love this book more as I read each entry. Sir Roy Strong writes of all sorts of everyday things and each is interesting. I found I wanted to write down some of them to share with friends. If you are a gardener at heart, you would especially enjoy this book. The most gardening I do is watering potted plants, but I still greatly enjoyed it. Hear about 'Posthumous Hoby' whose mother gave him his name because he was born after his father's death. For cat lover's there are tales of their cat. I got my copy from the library, but am going to buy one to read again, and buy one for our son, who loves gardening.