Chatsworth: Its Gardens and the People Who Made Them - Hardcover

by Alan Titchmarsh (Author)

Discover Jane Austen's real-life inspiration for Darcy's Pemberley!

Alan Titchmarsh goes on a personal journey of discovery through the rich heritage of Chatsworth Estate and gardens, one of the most visited stately homes in the country

Follow Alan into Chatsworth's irresistible world of visionaries, pioneers, heroes, villains and English eccentrics, and celebrate the men and women who have shaped the history of the estate over five centuries.

With his passionate knowledge of both the house and gardens, as well as his long-established relationship with the Cavendish family, Alan is the perfect guide with whom to explore the Palace of the Peaks.

Featuring stunning, specially commissioned photography of the gardens and parkland, alongside long-forgotten images and memorabilia newly unearthed in the estate archives, this vivid companion, crowded with character and color, is a book to treasure and revisit over and over again.

Author Biography

Alan Titchmarsh MBE is known to millions through his career as a television presenter of shows including Love Your Weekend, Love Your Garden, Ground Force, Gardeners' World, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and Spring Into Summer. He has written more than forty gardening books, as well as twelve novels and three volumes of memoirs. He was made MBE in the millennium New Year Honours list and holds the Victoria Medal of Honour, the Royal Horticultural Society's highest award.

Jonathan Buckley is an award-winning specialist garden and flower photographer who has been sole photographer on over 30 books, as well as contributing to a wide range of magazines and newspapers worldwide. Awards have included the Garden Media Guild Garden Photographer of the Year, Features Photographer of the Year and Single Image of the Year.