War Gardens, 9781787470712
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Hope blooms in war’s desolation: stories of resilient gardens.

War Gardens

A Journey Through Conflict in Search of Calm

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  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    27 May 2019

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Summary

A journey through the most unlikely of gardens: the oases of peace people create in the midst of war

In 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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781787470712
ISBN-10:1787470717
Author:Lalage Snow
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:Quercus Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:27 May 2019
Weight:278g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 27mm
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About The Author

Lalage Snow

Award-winning freelance photographer, filmmaker, and writer, Lalage Snow spent the best part of her professional life covering conflict in Afghanistan, The Middle East, and Ukraine. Her personal projects have been published and exhibited to critical acclaim around the world and have been featured on Channel 4 and the BBC, in The Times, Sunday Times, and Telegraph newspapers, and exhibited at the V&A and Smithsonian galleries.

Her first book, War Gardens: A Journey Through Conflict in Search of Calm, explores the conflicts of the twenty-first century through the eyes of civilians using gardening as a means of survival.

Lalage Snow now lives in the West Country with her family and a multitude of seedlings.

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