Landskipping is about viewing the view, from the 18th century to the present. From the title (which is the only self-conscious thing about this terrific book) I feared we might be in for a heavy dose of Wordworthishness and ‘the lone enraptured male’ school of writing. But Anna Pavord, along with Kathleen Jamie, Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Austen, is more down-to-earth than any Romantic moper.
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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £20 Tel: 08430 600033. Mary Keen is a lecturer, garden designer and the author of Creating a Garden and Paradise and Plenty: a Rothschild Family Garden.
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