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The brother gardeners botany, empire and the birth of an obsession

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Main Author: Wulf, Andrea
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2009.
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Horticulturists > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Plant collectors > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Gardening > Great Britain > History.
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Item Description:Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2008.
Physical Description:x, 354 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-282) and index.
ISBN:9780307270238 :
0307270238
Author Notes: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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