Tim Smit EDEN First Edition Signed
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Tim Smit EDEN First Edition Signed
First edition, first print hardback of EDEN, by Tim Smit and published by Bantam/Transworld Publishers Ltd, London, in 2001. Signed by Smit on the title page. With full numberline 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page.The book is in very good condition (Clean black cloth boards with silver lettering on the spine), with only minor wear to the dust jacket which is not price clipped (light creasing to the edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
Sir Tim Smit KBE was born in Holland on 25 September 1954. He read Archaeology and Anthropology at Durham University. Tim worked for ten years in the music industry as composer/producer in both rock music and opera. In 1987 Tim moved to Cornwall he and John Nelson together discovered and then restored the Lost Gardens of Heligan. Tim remains a Director of the gardens to the present day.
Tim is Executive Vice-Chairman, and Co-founder of the Award winning Eden Project near St Austell in Cornwall. Eden began as a dream in 1995 and opened its doors to the public in 2000, since when over 16 million people have come to see what was once a sterile pit turned into a cradle of life containing world-class horticulture and startling architecture symbolic of human endeavour.
Tim is a Trustee, Patron and Board Member of a number of statutory and voluntary bodies both locally and nationally. He has received a variety of national awards including The Royal Society of Arts Albert Medal (2003). In 2002 he was awarded an Honorary CBE in the New Years Honours List and in January 2011 he was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Her Majesty the Queen. This appointment was made substantive in June 2012 when he became a British Citizen.
He has received Honorary Doctorates and Fellowships from a number of Universities. Tim was voted Great Briton of 2007 in the Environment category of the Morgan Stanley Great Britons Awards. In 2011 Tim was given a special award at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, which recognises the contribution of people who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. Tim is the author of books about both Heligan and Eden and he has contributed to publications on a wide variety of subjects.
Eden is the inspiring story of how the Eden Project was conceived and built, by Tim Smit, its creator.
"With passion and commitment thousands of 'small' people built Eden as a symbol of hope in action...
We may all have feet of clay, but that shouldn't stop us trying to make a difference. Wouldn't we all rather look back and say, 'I'm glad I did,' rather than 'I wish I had'?
Some might smile at the naivety of such ambition, believing it to be impossible. We say, 'Demand the impossible'.'
So said Tim Smit and thus was the impossible delivered: a living theatre of plants and people and their interdependence, housed in a disused china clay pit and featuring the world's largest greenhouses. Well over five million visitors have since made their way to Eden, drawn by the astonishing, visionary ambition of its founders.
This is Tim's story of how it all came about: the Project's genesis in the Lost Gardens of Heligan, its design and construction against all the odds, its supremely talented team of larger-than-life personalities. Above all, how the energy that brought the vision to life is being applied to possible futures. It is a vision for all to share."
'Smit's vision of Eden is the eighth wonder of the world' - Independent
'Inspiring...An invaluable guide to how a large project can succeed against all odds' - The Sunday Times
'Smit is a truly driven individual who does not give up until he has accomplished his visionary goals' - The Times
317 pages. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout.
ISBN: 0 593 04883 0
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