{"product_id":"war-gardens-a-journey-through-conflict-in-search-of-calm","title":"Lalage Snow: War Gardens [2018] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A \u003cb\u003eremarkable\u003c\/b\u003e book . . . It's a powerful testament to \u003cb\u003ethe healing balm of gardening\u003c\/b\u003e and the resilience of the human spirit in the direst of circumstances.' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Not a happy book and yet it's \u003cb\u003emagically heartening\u003c\/b\u003e. It makes a gardener question his or her values.' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This \u003cb\u003eextraordinary\u003c\/b\u003e book...warm and engaging...like a photograph magicked to life.\u003ci\u003e' Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Snow has spent ten years as a photographer and filmmaker covering unrest . . . Throughout that time she has \u003cb\u003esought comfort in green oases\u003c\/b\u003e and come to understand \"how vital gardens are 'against a horrid wilderness' of war\". . . There can be few counter-narratives as\u003cb\u003e enchanting\u003c\/b\u003e and sad as those Snow recounts in \u003ci\u003eWar Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e.' \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'For all these victims of war, their gardens are places in which to breathe, providing moments of calm, hope and optimism in a fragile life of horror and uncertainty. For many, it helps them to grieve. \u003cb\u003eBooks seldom bring a lump to my throat, but this one did\u003c\/b\u003e.' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'What makes \u003ci\u003eWar Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e the most \u003cb\u003eilluminating \u003c\/b\u003egarden book to be published this year, is the realisation that people's gardens are the antidotes to the horrors of their surroundings.' \u003ci\u003eCountry Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA journey through the most unlikely of gardens: the oases of peace people create in the midst of war\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this millennium, we have become war weary. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Ukraine to South Sudan and Syria, from Kashmir to the West Bank, conflict is as contagious and poisonous as Japanese knotweed. Living through it are people just like us with ordinary jobs, ordinary pressures and ordinary lives. Against a new landscape of horror and violence it is up to them to maintain a modicum of normality and colour. For some, gardening is the way to achieve this.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorking in the world's most dangerous war zones, freelance war correspondent and photographer Lally Snow has often chanced across a very moving sight, a testimony to the triumph of the human spirit in adversity, a celebration of hope and beauty: a war garden. In Kabul, the royal gardens are tended by a centenarian gardener, though the king is long gone; in Camp Bastion, bored soldiers improvise tiny gardens to give themselves a moment's peace; on both sides of the dividing line in Jerusalem families tend groves of olives and raise beautiful plants from the unforgiving, disputed landscape; in Ukraine, families tend their gardens in the middle of a surreal, frozen war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWar Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e is a surprising, tragic and beautiful journey through the darkest places of the modern world, revealing the ways people make time and space for themselves and for nature even in the middle of destruction. Illustrated with Lally Snow's own award-winning photography, this is a book to treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Snow, Lalage","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48992137838931,"sku":"XV81787470682","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":46480156885331,"sku":"9781787470682","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/snow-lalage-lalage-snow-war-gardens-2018-hardback-1151389860.jpg?v=1742852007","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/war-gardens-a-journey-through-conflict-in-search-of-calm","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}