War gardens : a journey through conflict in search of calm
Snow, Lalage2018
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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. Working 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. This 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.
Main title:
War gardens : a journey through conflict in search of calm / Lalage Snow.
Author:
Snow, Lalage, author, photographer (expression)
Imprint:
London : Quercus, 2018.
Collation:
373 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781787470682 (hbk)9781787470705 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
712.6
Local class:
712.6
Language:
English
BRN:
2285484
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