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The brother gardeners : botany, empire, and the birth of an obsession / Andrea Wulf.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication 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
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB61 .W85 2009
Online resources: Awards:
  • Winner – 2010 Annual Book Awards – American Horticultural Society
  • Winner – 2010 Annual Literature Award (General Interest category) – Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries
Summary: 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.

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.

Winner – 2010 Annual Book Awards – American Horticultural Society

Winner – 2010 Annual Literature Award (General Interest category) – Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries

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