The Founding Gardeners
How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden
$38.53
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2012
Summary
The New York Times bestseller - a unique portrait of the founding fathers, exploring how their passion for gardens and nature influenced the birth of the American nation.
A follow-up to Andrea Wulf’s award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison’s passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America.
Through a series of vignettes spanning…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099525622 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099525623 |
| Author: | Andrea Wulf |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Windmill Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 31mm |
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Critics Review
EXCELLENT… Wulf writes enthrallingly. Wonderfully illuminating and readable
EXCELLENT… Wulf writes enthrallingly. Wonderfully illuminating and readable * Daily Telegraph *
ENGROSSING… excellent … fascinating… a timely and passionate book * Guardian *
SUPERB…this book will fascinate anyone interested in gardening, agriculture or American history. * Mail on Sunday *
WONDERFULLY ENGAGING… Her knack for description is marvelous * Times Literary Supplement *
A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT… Excellent [and] riveting * Country Life *
FASCINATING … this is a highly enjoyable and thought-provoking book. * Irish Times *
ILLUMINATING AND ENGROSSING … eloquent and revelatory * New York Times Sunday Book Review *
FASCINATING … genuinely illuminating, illustrated with a wealth of compelling detail * Spectator *
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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