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The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession
Wulf Andrea
Synopsis "The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession"
A fascinating look at the men who made Britain the center of the botanical world--from the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. "Wulf's flair for storytelling is combined with scholarship, brio, and a charmingly airy style.... A delightful book--and you don't need to be a gardener to enjoy it." --The New York Times Book ReviewBringing to life the science and adventure of eighteenth-century plant collecting, The Brother Gardeners is the story of how six men created the modern garden and changed the horticultural world in the process. It is a story of a garden revolution that began in America. In 1733, colonial farmer John Bartram shipped two boxes of precious American plants and seeds to Peter Collinson in London. Around these men formed the nucleus of a botany movement, which included famous Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus; Philip Miller, bestselling author of The Gardeners Dictionary; and Joseph Banks and David Solander, two botanist explorers, who scoured the globe for plant life aboard Captain Cook's Endeavor. As they cultivated exotic blooms from around the world, they helped make Britain an epicenter of horticultural and botanical expertise. The Brother Gardeners paints a vivid portrait of an emerging world of knowledge and gardening as we know it today.
Andrea Wulf nació en India, se mudó a Alemania de niña y hoy vive en Londres, donde da clases de Historia del Diseño en el Royal College of Art. Es autora de libros como The Brother Gardeners y Founding Gardeners. The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation, aclamado por la crítica. Ha colaborado con medios como The New York Times, The LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times y The Guardian, entre otros medios. Ha dado conferencias en lugares como la Royal Geographical Society, la Royal Society de Londres, la American Philosophical Society de Philadelphia y la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York. Es autora, entre otros libros, de la maravillosa biografía de Alexander Von Humboldt La invención de la naturaleza (Taurus, 2016), best seller internacional, con el que obtuvo más de quince premios internacionales (incluidos el Royal Society Science Book Award y el Costa Biography Award) y de la novela gráfica El increíble viaje de Alexander von Humboldt al corazón de la naturaleza (Random Comics, 2019).
