Andrea Wulf

Broschiertes Buch

The Brother Gardeners

Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Windmill Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 589165
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780099502371
• ISBN-10: 0099502372
• Artikelnr.: 25461480

Rezensionen

This absorbing and delightful book about 18th-century botanists stands out among histories of plant hunting ... Works superbly Jenny Uglow Sunday Telegraph