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Wheeler, David

David founded the literary gardening journal Hortus in 1987 and continues as its editor. He is the author of several books, including Over the Hills from Broadway: Images of Cotswold Gardens, and the editor of several anthologies, including The Penguin Book of Garden Writing. In 2009 he was awarded the RHS Gold Veitch Medal in recognition of services given in the advancement of science and practice of horticulture.

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Napoleon’s Last Garden

David Wheeler on Julia Blackburn, The Emperor’s Last Island

The bright orange spine of The Emperor’s Last Island shone conspicuously. The author’s name didn’t register, but the powerful word ‘island’ most certainly did, and when I took the slim volume from the shelf and saw the painted sketch of Napoleon and read the subtitle, A Journey to St Helena, my pulse began to quicken. My great-grandparents were married there, a place more remote than anywhere else on earth; of greater significance to me, in the mid-1960s my own teenage eyes gazed briefly upon this island with its fortress-like cliffs; but in the intervening years I had read nothing about it.

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