This book is dedicated to our first client Mrs Green, all the other brave souls who have commissioned us, and all the gifted artisans who have worked with us.

‘First on the wal was peynted a forest In which ther dwelleth neither man ne best, With knotty, knarry, bareyne trees olde, Of stubbes sharpe and hidouse to biholde, In which there ran a rumbel in a swough As though a storm shoulde bresten every bough. and dounward from an hille, under a bente, Ther stod the temple of Mars armypotente.’

Geoffrey Chaucer The Knight’s Tale

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Landscape of Dreams © Pimpernel Press Limited 2016 Text © Isabel and Julian Bannerman 2016 Photographs © Isabel and Julian Bannerman and Dunstan Baker 2016, except as noted on page 296.

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