The brother gardeners : botany, empire, and the birth of an obsession /
Wulf, Andrea.
The brother gardeners : botany, empire, and the birth of an obsession / Andrea Wulf. - 1st U.S ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. - x, 354 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.
Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2008. "A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-333) and index.
Follows the lives of six men (Joseph Banks, John Bartram, Peter Collinson, Carl Linnaeus, Philip Miller and Daniel Solander) who shared a passion for plants and a love of gardening in eighteenth-century London, who made Britain the epicenter of horticulture, and transformed gardening from an aristocratic pastime to a national obsession.
9780307270238 0307270238
2008055080
Horticulturists--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Plant collectors--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Gardening--History--Great Britain--18th century.
SB61 / .W85 2009
SB61 / .W85 2009
The brother gardeners : botany, empire, and the birth of an obsession / Andrea Wulf. - 1st U.S ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. - x, 354 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.
Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2008. "A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-333) and index.
Follows the lives of six men (Joseph Banks, John Bartram, Peter Collinson, Carl Linnaeus, Philip Miller and Daniel Solander) who shared a passion for plants and a love of gardening in eighteenth-century London, who made Britain the epicenter of horticulture, and transformed gardening from an aristocratic pastime to a national obsession.
9780307270238 0307270238
2008055080
Horticulturists--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Plant collectors--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Gardening--History--Great Britain--18th century.
SB61 / .W85 2009
SB61 / .W85 2009