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Napoleons school days in Brienne-le-Château are best known from the snowball fight in Abel Gances remarkable six-hour film Napoléon. A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows by Ruth Scurr review warrior emperor and keen gardener This uncoventional biography finds a new way to look at the life of a great figure says.
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Napoleons gardens range from his childhood olive groves in Corsica to Josephines menageries in Paris to the walled garden of Hougoumont at the battle of Waterloo and ultimately to St Helena where he could sit and scan.
. A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows. Duchess of Devonshire From Napoleons first garden as a schoolboy to his last on Saint Helena Ruth Scurr takes us on a journey filled with unexpected new vistas on a familiar life. A revelatory portrait of Napoleon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death written for our own time not in power politics or epic battles but through his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shade.
There is no question that he brought to his gardening projects the same energy and inquiring mind he brought to everything he did and yet there is so vast a gulf between tidying gardens and sweeping away the 1000-years rubble of the Holy Roman Empire between grafting trees and grafting the Bonaparte name on to the royal houses of Europe that anyone coming fresh to. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Napoleon. It is a bit of a conspicuous stretch for the author and as a reader I was always aware of the odd contortion act the author was going through to tie Napoleon back to his gardens.
The result is a refreshing engaging read -- Victoria Johnson Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of American Eden. A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows foregrounds his passion for science and love of the natural world. No highlighting markings or writing.
The result is a refreshing engaging read--Victoria Johnson Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of American Eden A pleasure to read. Amanda Foreman bestselling author of Georgiana. Liveright 2895 416p ISBN 978-1-63149-241-9.
Less well known is that during this time he found refuge in a small allotment no. A revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time exploring his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shade. As Scurr reveals gardening was the first and last love of Napoleon offering him a retreat from the manifold frustrations of war and politics.
There is no question that he brought to his gardening projects the same energy and inquiring mind he brought to everything he did and yet there is so vast a gulf between tidying gardens and sweeping away the 1000-years rubble of the Holy Roman Empire between grafting trees and grafting the Bonaparte name on to the royal houses of Europe that anyone coming. Well written butgardening does not provide a useful lens through which to view Napoleons life. Ruth Scurrs sharp perception opens new vistas in the extensive landscape of Napoleons boundlessly curious mind--Sue Prideaux.
A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows. A revelatory portrait of Napoleon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death written for our own time not in power politics or epic battles but through his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shade. A wealth of natural history and a fine Napoleon biography-- Kirkus Reviews From Napoleons first garden as a schoolboy to his last on Saint Helena Ruth Scurr takes us on a journey filled with unexpected new vistas on a familiar life.
As Scurr reveals gardening was the first and last love of Napoleon offering him a retreat. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. An elegant prose stylist Scurr is above all a fabulous historian and a vivid storyteller with a novelists eye for engaging detail.
Pages and cover clean and intact. With Napoleon Ruth Scurr one of our most eloquent and original historians emphatically rejects the shibboleth of the Great Man theory of history instead following the dramatic trajectory of Napoleons life through gardens parks and forests. A Life in Gardens and Shadows foregrounds his passion for science and love of the natural world.
A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows Ruth Scurr. With Napoleon Ruth Scurr one of our most eloquent and original historians emphatically rejects the shibboleth of the Great Man theory of history instead following the dramatic trajectory of Napoleons life through gardens parks and forests. Napoleons gardens range from his childhood olive.
It is hard to find fresh things to say about Napoleon but Ruth Scurr has managed it. You are purchasing a Very Good copy of Napoleon. A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows foregrounds his passion for science and love of the natural.
On June 25 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at Malmaison the late Empress Joséphines estate 7 miles west of Paris. As Scurr reveals gardening was the first and last love of Napoleon offering him a retreat from the manifold. A Life in Gardens and Shadows is history at its most enjoyable a discursive ramble along its edges away from matters of power and into its byways.
30 out of 5 starsSlender. What a great idea for a bookand how disappointing to discover that nearly all of the gardens and gardening here are so tenuously connected to Napoleon. With the exception of the Battle of Waterloothe most significant fighting of which took place over a garden at Hougoumontthe wars in this book occur largely offstage.
Liveright Publishing Jun 15 2021. Used book in very good conditions. A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows foregrounds his passion for science and love of the natural world.
With Napoleon Ruth Scurr one of our most eloquent and original historians emphatically rejects the shibboleth of the Great Man theory of history instead following the dramatic trajectory of Napoleons life through gardens parks and forests. A Life in Gardens and Shadows. Napoleon as The Gardener of St.
Reviewed in the United States on February 10 2022. With Napoleon Ruth Scurr one of our most eloquent and original historians emphatically rejects the shibboleth of the Great Man theory of history instead following the dramatic trajectory of Napoleons life through gardens parks and forests. As Scurr reveals gardening was the first and last love of Napoleon offering him a retreat from the manifold frustrations of war and politics.
Napoleons gardens range from his childhood olive groves in Corsica to Josephines gardens and menageries in Paris to. The result is a refreshing.
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