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The Brother Gardeners
Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
By: Andrea Wulf
Paperback | 5 February 2009 | Edition Number 1
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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 botanist-adventurer Joseph Banks and his colleague Daniel Solander who both explored the strange flora of Tahiti and Australia on Captain Cook’s Endeavour.
This is the story of these men – friends, rivals, enemies, united by a passion for plants. Set against the backdrop of the emerging empire and the uncharted world beyond, The Brother Gardeners tells the story how Britain became a nation of gardeners.
About the Author
Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art and is the author of The Brother Gardeners (longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 and winner of the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award), The Founding Gardeners, Chasing Venus and 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 New York Times, theGuardian, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and many others.
She lives in London.
Industry Reviews
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 *
ISBN: 9780099502371
ISBN-10: 0099502372
Published: 5th February 2009
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 384
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 19 x 12 x 3
Weight (kg): 0.29
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