The Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf
A follow-up to Andrea Wulf's award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America. Through a series of vignettes spanning the Declaration of Independence to the death of Adams and Jefferson exactly fifty years to the day afterwards, these stories that weave the political, the personal and the botanical and are in turns funny, fascinating and moving. The Founding Gardeners shows that it is impossible to understand these visionary men and the American nation without considering their love of gardening.
EXCELLENT.. Wulf writes enthrallingly. Wonderfully illuminating and readable * Daily Telegraph *
ENGROSSING... excellent ... fascinating... a timely and passionate book * Guardian *
SUPERB...this book will fascinate anyone interested in gardening, agriculture or American history. * Mail on Sunday *
WONDERFULLY ENGAGING... Her knack for description is marvelous * Times Literary Supplement *
A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT... Excellent [and] riveting * Country Life *
ENGROSSING... excellent ... fascinating... a timely and passionate book * Guardian *
SUPERB...this book will fascinate anyone interested in gardening, agriculture or American history. * Mail on Sunday *
WONDERFULLY ENGAGING... Her knack for description is marvelous * Times Literary Supplement *
A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT... Excellent [and] riveting * Country Life *
Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She lives in London and is the author of several books, including The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World (Winner of the 2015 Costa Biography Award and the 2016 Royal Society Science Book Prize) and Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self. A member of PEN American Center and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is currently a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099525622 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099525623 |
| Title | The Founding Gardeners |
| Author | Andrea Wulf |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2012-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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