Dionysus A Social History of the Wine Vine

London, England: Thames and Hudson. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1965. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs and Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is a previous owner's gift notation on the front pastedown page. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has edge wear, rubbing and wear, and some light bumping to the spine ends and corners. "In Molash, the couple took up gardening, restoring a three-acre cottage garen property. He wrote about this time in his memoir, From the Waste Land, describing the transformation of his home, "Nut Tree Cottages", into a prosperous market garden. Hyams stayed in Molash until 1960, while becoming an increasingly avid horticulturalist. During this time, Hyams also developed a serious interest in viticulture, and in 1960 moved to south Devon, to re-establish grape vineyards in England. He published The Grape Vine in England in 1949, and edited a volume on English viticulture in 1953, Vineyards in England. In 1965 Hyams published Dionysus: A Social History of the Wine Vine, combining his passions for social history and viticulture, and arguing for hybrid viticulture. Hyams' most famous work was Soil and Civilisation (1952) , a history of farming which advocated organic farming and came out against mechanised agriculture. Soil and Civilisation has been described as an early example of "environmental literature". It also included a favourable depiction of the Incas. From 1959 to 1974 he penned the gardening column for the Illustrated London News" (from Wikipedia) .