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23%OFFAndrea Wulf - The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden - 9780099525622 - V9780099525622
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The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden

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Description for The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden Paperback. A 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. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBTB; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 175 x 28. Weight in Grams: 378.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099525622
SKU
V9780099525622
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About Andrea Wulf
Andrea Wulf trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art and is the co-author (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden and The Brother Gardeners, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award. She has written and reviewed for The Sunday Times, the Financial Times, The Garden, The Architects' Journal and the TLS.

Reviews for The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden
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 ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden


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