Gardens of Awe and Folly: A Traveler's Journal on the Meaning of Life and Gardening

5 best books like Gardens of Awe and Folly: A Traveler's Journal on the Meaning of Life and Gardening (Vivian Swift): Rules for Visiting, Martha's Vineyard, Isle of Dreams (#2), Essais 1, Tea with Mr. Rochester, A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside

Rules for Visiting

Author	Jessica Francis Kane
ISBN	0525559221

A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year.

At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure in...

Martha's Vineyard, Isle of Dreams (#2)

Author	Susan Branch
ISBN	0996044027

In the winter of 1982, long before she became the watercolor artist and author we know today, Susan Branch, 34-years-old and heart-broken from the sudden and unexpected end of her marriage in California, "ran away from home" to the Island of Martha's Vineyard.

It was meant to be temporary,...

Essais 1

Author	Michel de Montaigne
ISBN	2080702106

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...

Tea with Mr. Rochester

Author	Frances Towers
ISBN	1903155347

When these captivating and at times bizarre stories were published posthumously in 1949, Angus Wilson wrote: 'It appears no exaggeration to say that Frances Towers's death in 1948 may have robbed us of a figure of more than purely contemporary significance. At first glance one might be disposed to...

A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside

Author	Susan Branch
ISBN	0984913661

A thrilling ocean voyage on the Queen Mary 2 from New York City to Southampton culminating in a two-month ramble through the charming backroads and small villages of the pastoral English countryside in the spring of last year is the subject of this delicious travel journal that Susan has painstakingly...