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The Findhorn Garden

FINDHORN COMMUNITY; GEORGE TREVELYAN, Foreword by

The Findhorn Garden

Turnstone Books / Wildwood House, London: 1976
  • $125
Quarto. 8.25 x 9.5 in. x, 180 pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs. Uncommon first hardcover printing from Great Britain, with a foreword by new age thinker and educator Sir George Trevelyan. The Findhorn Community was "unintentionally established" in the 1940's in coastal Scotland, where a community was founded upon principles considered to be "new age" at the time; today the Findhorn Foundation intentional community (across four sites) is home to over 400 members. The Findhorn was a mecca for some "curious horticulturists", their vegetable gardens being prolific even in poor soil. Near fine in very good, edgeworn pictorial dust jacket, unclipped. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown.
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