Green and Pleasant Land

Cod : 9780099558668

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The wonderfully evocative story of how Britain's World War Two gardeners - with great ingenuity, invincible good humour and extraordinary fortitude - dug for victory on home turf.

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A Green and Pleasant Land tells the intriguing and inspiring story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged and cajoled its citizens to grow their own fruit and vegetables. As the Second World War began in earnest and a whole nation listened to wireless broadcasts, dug holes for Anderson shelters, counted their coupons and made do and mended, so too were they instructed to 'Dig for Victory'.Ordinary people, as well as gardening experts, rose to the challenge: gardens, scrubland, allotments and even public parks were soon helping to feed a nation deprived of fresh produce.

As Ursula Buchan reveals, this practical contribution to the Home Front was tackled with thrifty ingenuity, grumbling humour and extraordinary fortitude. The simple act of turning over soil and tending new plants became important psychologically for a population under constant threat of bombing and even invasion. Gardening reminded people that their country and its more innocent and insular pursuits were worth fighting for. Gardening in wartime Britain was a part of the fight for freedom.

Specificatii

Anul publicarii	2014
ISBN	9780099558668
Format coperta	Brosata
Numar pagini	368
Limba	Englezã
Domeniul	Gardening
Autor	Ursula Buchan
De aceeasi editura	Windmill Books
CM	72441
DS	BR/1#MEGA/2
Goodreads	https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780099558668
Dimensiuni	Height: 7.75 Inches, Length: 5 Inches, Weight: 0.61288508836 Pounds, Width: 1 Inches