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From the authors of 1066 And All That - 'all the History you can remember is in the book' - an uproariously funny single-volume guide to everything you ever needed to know about gardens and gardening, nature and nurture, now reissued for the first time in
This fragrant little volume by the authors of 1066 And All That omits entirely to deal with the History of British Agriculture (post-Saxon). It covers instead the entire range of Gardening (including Golf, but omitting chestnuts), Country Life and Scouting, addressing with equal frankness both the issue of Great Open Spaces and the delicate question of Earth Control in a manner at once hilarious and perfectly hygienic. On the subject of bee-keeping the authors are quite unveiled, and on the psychology of hen-flight they show a sympathetic understanding. From pollen to potato-fly and grafting to gazebos, everyone who loves - or hates - gardens, gardening or the outdoor life will wallow in the rich loam of Sellar and Yeatman's irresistible wisdom. "Just fondling the covers is thrilling" - Mr Knatchbull Twee, author of My Tiny Acre
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About W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman W C Sellar was born in Sutherland and educated at Fettes, near Edinburgh. R J Yeatman was born in Oporto, where his father was a wine merchant (the family is still connected with Taylor's Port). They met at Oriel College, Oxford after the First World War and began publishing through Punch. Along with 1066 And All That, which is 'one of the permanent treasures of Eng. Lit. as Entertainment' (Frank Muir), their other books were And Now All This, Horse Nonsense (mainly by Yeatman - Sellar disliked horses) and Garden Rubbish (mainly by Sellar - Yeatman loathed gardening).
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