Founding Gardeners

How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden

AvAndrea Wulf

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Engelska, 2011

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-02-03
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781409022572
Förlag:Cornerstone

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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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"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