"Our England is a garden," noted the writer Rudyard Kipling, and when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, he immediately invested his prize money in his garden at Bateman's in Sussex. The passion for gardening was shared by the author of "The Jungle Book" with renowned figures such as politician Winston Churchill, crime writer Agatha Christie, sculptor Barbara Hepworth, and director Derek Jarman. In this volume, journalist Sabine Deh and photographer Bent Szameitat take readers on an entertaining journey through 60 interesting gardens and sculpture parks in southern England. The trip includes visits to Monk's House, the home of writer Virginia Woolf, Hever Castle, where Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, grew up, and Highgrove, the private refuge of Pri.