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The Brother Gardeners
Andrea Wulf
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Description for The Brother Gardeners
Paperback. One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBTB; WMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 368.
One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds...
Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hundreds of American species to England, where Collinson was one of a handful of men who would foster a national obsession and change the gardens of Britain forever: Philip Miller, author of the bestselling Gardeners Dictionary; the Swede Carl Linnaeus, whose standardised botanical nomenclature popularised botany; the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Windmill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099502371
SKU
V9780099502371
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About Andrea Wulf
Andrea Wulf was born India and moved to Germany as a child. She trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art and is the co-author (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History. She has written for the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, Mail on Sunday, The Garden, the ... Read more
Reviews for The Brother Gardeners
This absorbing and delightful book about 18th-century botanists stands out among histories of plant hunting ... Works superbly
Jenny Uglow
Sunday Telegraph
Rounded, generous and exhaustively researched ... She is very adept at telling a good story, and in the history and origins of gardening she has found the perfect vehicle ... An excellent, hugely entertaining and ... Read more
Jenny Uglow
Sunday Telegraph
Rounded, generous and exhaustively researched ... She is very adept at telling a good story, and in the history and origins of gardening she has found the perfect vehicle ... An excellent, hugely entertaining and ... Read more