The Brother Gardeners
Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
$44.22
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2009
Summary
A wonderfully readable investigation of the origins of the modern garden in 18th-century England. Popular history at its finest.
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 Col…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099502371 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099502372 |
| Author: | Andrea Wulf |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Windmill Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
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 instructive tale, and Wulf tells it very well – Mark Cocker * The Guardian *
Wondrous … I have learned so much from her book – Jon Snow, Channel Four News
A delightful book … Remarkably vivid – Adrian Tinniswood
Engrossing … A gripping story, told here with grace and aplomb – Tim Richardson * Country Life *
Wonderful … A fascinating read – Steven Poole
Fabulous … What an incredible account of an amazing century – Kim Wilde
A wondrous telling of the history of the very English love affair with gardens and growing things – Jon Snow, Channel Four News
The Brother Gardeners is a delightful book. It brings the story of 18th-century gardening to life in a remarkably vivid way, and sheds new light on the personality clashes and prejudices which lay at the root of the Georgians’ passion for plants – Adrian Tinniswood
The Brother Gardeners were a group of men involved in the 18th-century quest for new plants, at a fascinating period in garden history. Andrea Wulf brings their personalities vividly to life in her thoroughly researched and lively account. – Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
About The Author
Andrea Wulf
Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She lives in London and is the author of several books, including The Invention of Nature- Alexander von Humboldt’s New World (Winner of the 2015 Costa Biography Award and the 2016 Royal Society Science Book Prize) and Magnificent Rebels- The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self. A member of PEN American Center and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is currently a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute.
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