The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf

The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession

Andrea Wulf

350 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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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, his new contact in the American colonies. But it was not reels of wool or bales of cott...

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