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“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 Review “A lively account . . . renders with clarity and grace a significant chapter in horticultural history . . . Elegant, humorous and accessible. . . A erudite, pleasurable and handsome book."—Richmond Times Dispatch “Vigorous … powerful …Wulf draws the threads of her story compellingly together and lights up an “American connection” in Georgian garden growth as never before.”—The Financial Times “Engaging.”—The New Yorker“A fascinating and beautifully researched story.”—Philadelphia Tribune “Engaging. . . . Lavishly researched. . . . Wulf never allows her material to overwhelm a vivid sense of the big picture, which keenly informs her sparkling narrative.”—Bookforum “The Brother Gardeners is beautifully researched and equally well written.” —American Scientist “As Wulf triumphantly shows, plants and gardens reveal a wider view of the forces that shape society ... rarely has the story of English plants been told with such vigour, and such fun.” —Times Literary Supplement, London “The best book this year is The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession” —Independent on Sunday, London “Well-written. . . . Andrea Wulf brings this formative period of plant history to life.”—American Gardener "The Brother Gardeners is an excellent, hugely entertaining and instructive tale, and Wulf tells it well." —The Guardian, London “This absorbing and delightful book about 18th-century botanists stands out among histories of plant hunting ... The approach works superbly because Andrea Wulf makes us see her subjects so vividly … Wulf is admirably clear about the botanical discoveries (amplified by a fascinating glossary of plants, detailing their discovery and introduction).” —Sunday Telegraph, London "'The Brother Gardeners' by Andrea Wulf is a beguiling tale ... this tale of many surprises"—Free-Lance Star "Enthralling. . . . Gripping. . . . Brilliantly readable. . . . Andrea Wulf has written a wonderful book." —Mail on Sunday, London “A gripping tale.”—The Huffington Post “Engrossing new book … The American seeds and plants thrived in the English soil and climate, and a national obsession was born. Origins and ironies aside, we are all the richer for it, and for Wulf's book, too.” —Hartford Courant “A delightful look at horticultural history.” —Scotland on Sunday “An eminently readable narrative. . . . Like a well-kept garden, The Brother Gardeners is a delight.”—Providence Journal
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About the Author
Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She trained as a design historian at London’s Royal College of Art . She is also the author of The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World and Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation and is coauthor (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History. She has written for The Sunday Times (London), the Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, and she reviews for numerous newspapers, including The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Mail on Sunday. She appears regularly on BBC television and radio. The Brothers Gardeners was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008.
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Product details
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage (March 9, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307454754
ISBN-13: 978-0307454751
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.8 out of 5 stars
62 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#57,289 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Do you know why William Bligh's tomb is in the National Museum of Garden History, a few steps from Gertrude Jekyl's boots? Do you know how and why "English" gardens differ from "French" gardens? Probably not.Gardening and Botanical History are the nominal subjects of this book, but the heart of it is one of the great adventures of all time, the first voyage of Cook's HMS Endeavour and it's scientific mission(s). It ranks with the Lewis and Clark expedition or those of Ernest Shackleton in and around Antarctica, in the sweep of the story and importance of the results.If you've read "South" by Ernest Shackleton or "Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose, you should be prepared for Wulf's presentation of Joseph Banks' around the world quest for scientific knowledge aboard Cook's ship on its way to observe the Transit of Venus, about which Wulf has written another book.Wulf lets the facts speak for themselves and provides many references to source material, much of it online, that will give you hours if not months of adventure of your own.This book is about a more that one huge subject, handled with respect by a very competent scholar. It is about the revolution, if not the invention of gardening, about the invention of Taxonomy, about the seeds of Darwin's studies of evolution, planted by his grandfather. It's about the incredible importance of the Royal Society and some of its Fellows. It's about much more, especially if you are American or English. Any one of these sub-plots has been the subject of many college courses, but this book is definitely not a dry academic text.One of the most important subjects of "The Brother Gardeners" is, indirectly, 18th century American Colonial History. The continuous close relationship between John Bartram and his English "Brothers" when America was about to launch the War of Independence reminds us of how close the colonies were to the English and how badly the English government misread and lost their richest and closest allies.Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and a few other people you may have heard of are also important to this first part of "Brother Gardeners". So much so that Wulf has written a second book about some of the "Founding Gardeners".The Kindle Edition may not be for the serious student of Gardening or History. Access to the footnotes is excellent by touch. The footnotes are not distracting and are terse and well done. But if you want to read the extensive bibliography you risk getting lost. And the glossary is almost unreadable since it is in an extremely small typeface and not expandable.Read this book once to learn about the "Brothers". Read it again with a computer handy for the original Notes of Captain Cook and Joseph Banks and others, and above all for the original botanical illustrations from various people mentioned in the text. If you are a biologist and think you know Linnaeus, this book and the online primary source material may revise or amplify you view.This reviewer is an old biologist with more than a year in Antarctica and another in England and some its gardens and I learned something from Andrea Wulf on almost every page of this innocent looking book.
.If you love the 18th century and gardening and adventure stories, Andrea Wulf's books are made for you.You will laugh and you will wince at the office politics, the one-upmanship, and the sheer joy and camaraderie found in "The Brother Gardeners."This story of the tight fraternity of early botanists is divided into two related sections.The first half of the book focuses on John Bartram of Philadelphia and his business partnership with Peter Collinson of England. The impact one hard-working Pennsylvania Quaker had on the international trade and exchange of plants is breath-taking. Seed by seed, pine cone by pine cone, plant by plant, John Bartram changed the face of English gardens forever.Bartram's adventures in collecting plants and seeds to fill Collinson's orders are phenomenal--climbing trees, canoeing, hiking, crawling through caves, and during the French and Indian War, searching for plants along the dangerous frontier.Collinson's frustrations when incoming shipments are spoiled by the weather or plundered by pirates and his squabbling friendship with Bartram are both sad and funny.The second part of the book picks up after both Bartram and Collinson have died. This section has some of the same characters as Part One, now focusing on Daniel Solander and Joseph Banks, the second generation of botanist-adventurers. Their adventures and discoveries with Captain Cook on the "Endeavour" and their trip to Tahiti with Captain Bligh on the "Bounty," put an exciting spin on botany, global exploration, and international trade.One of the many threads that tie the two sections of the book together is the story of Carl Linnaeus. An important scientific figure, a brilliant egomaniac, a proud and lonely man, Linnaeus adds a bit of spikiness to the story.The book is fascinating and should be read for pleasure, as well as for its lessons in history, botany, and international trade.Great book!Kim BurdickStanton, DE
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