The Vineyard: A Memoir

by Louisa Hargrave

Book Overview

In 1973, against the advice of experts and the experience of history, Louisa Hargrave and her husband, Alex, bought a run-down 1680-vintage potato farm on Long Island's North Fork and planted ten thousand European wine grapes. Having begun her grape- growing adventure with the arrogance of youth and the assumption that she and her husband could figure it all out themselves, she was both humbled and transformed by the land, by her children, and by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142004316
• ISBN13: 9780142004319
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher