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The Brother Gardeners

Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession

The Brother Gardeners( )
Author: Wulf, Andrea
ISBN:978-0-307-27023-8
Publication Date:Mar 2009
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Knopf
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $35.00
Book Description:

This is the fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of gardeners and the epicenter of horticultural and botanical expertise. It’s the story of a garden revolution that began in America. In 1733, the American farmer John Bartram dispatched two boxes of plants and seeds from the American colonies, addressed to the London cloth merchant Peter Collinson. Most of these plants had never before been grown in British...
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Book Details
Pages:368
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Environmentalists & Naturalists
Gardening / Regional / General
Science / Life Sciences / Botany
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.67 x 9.58 x 1.34 Inches
Book Weight:1.66 Pounds
Author Biography
Wulf, Andrea (Author)
Andrea Wulf is an English historian and writer, born in New Delhi, India in 1972. She studied design at the Royal College of Art. She is a public speaker and has lectured in the UK and USA. Her books include This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History; Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation; and Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens. Her award winning book, The Brother Gardeners, received a CBHL Annual Literature Award in 2010. The Invention of Nature: How Alexander Von Humboldt Revolutionized Our World, received the 2015 Costa Book Award in the biography category, and the 2016 Royal Society Science Book Prize for 'outstanding popular science books' written for a non-specialist audience.

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