From the author of the highly acclaimed Wiccan Roots, this is the
first full-length biography of Gerald Brosseau Gardner (1884-1964)
a very personal tale of the man who single-handedly brought about
the revival of witchcraft in England in the mid 20th Century.
From his birth into an old family of wealthy Liverpool
merchants, through an unconventional upbringing by his flamboyant
governess in the resorts of the Mediterranean and Madeira, it tells
how, having taught himself to read, his life was changed by finding
a book on spiritualism.
During a working life as a tea and rubber planter in Ceylon,
Borneo and Malaya, he came to know the native people and was
invited to their secret rituals.
But it was only on his retirement to England, settling on the
edge of the New Forest in Hampshire, that destiny took him firmly
by the hand. Through various twists and turns involving naturist
clubs and a strange esoteric theatre, he became friends with a
group of people who eventually revealed th
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