The brother gardeners : botany, empire, and the birth of an obsession / Andrea Wulf.
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TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.Edition: 1st U.S edDescription: x, 354 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780307270238
- 0307270238
- SB61 .W85 2009
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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.