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Charles Latham's Gardens of Italy: From the Archives of "Country Life" by Helena Attlee
$99.99 AUD
Category: Gardening
In the spring of 1903, Country Life's first staff photographer, Charles Latham, set off from London's Victoria station with his large-format camera and several boxes of fragile glass negatives bound for Rome. He spent the months that followed photographing some of Italy's finest historic gardens. In all ...Show more
Italian Gardens by Helena Attlee
$49.99 AUD
Category: Gardening
To many of us, the great gardens of Italy seem like paradise on earth. But how much do we know of their history, and the people who created them?In this ravishing book, illustrated with contemporary paintings, drawings and prints as well as photographs of the gardens today, Helena Attlee tells their sto ...Show more
Italy's Private Gardens: An Inside View by Helena Attlee
$90.00 AUD
Category: Gardening
Helena Attlee and her photographer husband Alex Ramsay have been visiting Italian gardens, photographing them and writing about them, for two decades. In recent years Helena has been leading garden tours to Italy, arranging for clients to enjoy lunch with garden owners, chat with gardeners and discuss d ...Show more
Lev's Violin: An Italian Adventure by Helena Attlee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
An unexpected journey through Italy, led by the voice of a violinFrom the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is told that it is an Italian instrument, named after its former Russian owner. Eager to discover all she can about its ancestry and the stories co ...Show more
The Gardens of Japan by Helena Attlee
$45.00 AUD
Category: Gardening
In Japanese gardens, visitors find nature consdensed and brought to perfection: trees are trained and sculpted; the finest natural landscapes are reproduced in miniature; and the seasons are celebrated with spring blossom and the fiery leaves of autumn. In this introduction to Japanese gardens Helena At ...Show more
The Land Where Lemons Grow : The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Travellers have always been thrilled by the sight of citrus in Italy, where dark leaves and bright fruit seem to charge the landscape, making the trees symbols of a sun-soaked, poetic vision of the country. Citrus also holds a special place in the Italian imagination, and in The Land Where Lemons Grow, ...Show more
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
This is a portrait of Italy unlike any other, a heady blend of travel, history, art and food that takes us from Lake Garda's lemon houses through the gardens of Tuscan villas to Calabria's scented bergamot groves and a Sicilian marmalade kitchen, from top to bottom of the land where lemons grow. 'Unmiss ...Show more
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