The Garden Handbook

Special Features

The toys we couldn't resist building: oracles, daily readings, dinner wheels, telegrams and other machinery made from old books.

The Grand Tour

Around the world in thirty historic houses, in the order a 1908 traveler would have taken them.

From Historic Houses and Their Gardens, 1908

The World Map of Houses

All thirty houses and gardens pinned across four continents.

From Historic Houses and Their Gardens, 1908

The Long Gallery

Curses, ghosts and the secrets of thirty great houses — 105 of the strangest true stories, each linking to the house it belongs to.

From Historic Houses and Their Gardens, 1908