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The Brother Gardeners

- Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
Af: Andrea Wulf Engelsk Paperback

The Brother Gardeners

- Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
Af: Andrea Wulf Engelsk Paperback
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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.

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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.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 384
ISBN-13: 9780099502371
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0099502372
Kategori: British Empire
Udg. Dato: 5 feb 2009
Længde: 30mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 196mm
Forlag: Cornerstone
Oplagsdato: 5 feb 2009
Forfatter(e): Andrea Wulf
Forfatter(e) Andrea Wulf


Kategori British Empire


ISBN-13 9780099502371


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 384


Udgave


Længde 30mm


Bredde 129mm


Højde 196mm


Udg. Dato 5 feb 2009


Oplagsdato 5 feb 2009


Forlag Cornerstone

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