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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-033.mrc:51427121:2378
Source marc_columbia
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050 14 $aSB61$b.W85 2010
082 04 $a635.092241$222
049 $aZCUA
100 1 $aWulf, Andrea,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe brother gardeners :$bbotany, empire, and the birth of an obsession /$cAndrea Wulf.
250 $a1st American ed.
264 1 $aNew York :$bVintage Books,$c[2010]
264 4 $c©2008
300 $ax, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), map, portraits ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index.
500 $aOriginally published: London : William Heinemann, 2008.
520 $aFollows the lives of botany enthusiasts, Peter Collinson, John Bartram, Philip Miller, Carl Linnaeus, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, whose shared passion for plants gave rise to the English love affair with gardens.
505 0 $apt. 1. Roots. "Forget not Mee & My Garden" -- "The bright beam of gardening" -- "My harmless sexual system" -- "Pray go very Clean, neat & handsomely Dressed to Virginia" -- pt. 2. Growth. "All gardening is landscape-painting" -- "Send no Seeds for him ... all is att an End" -- "Commonwealth of Botany" -- The English are all, more or less, gardeners" -- See what a complete empire we have now got within ourselves" -- pt. 3. Harvest. "Ye who o'er Southern Oceans wander" -- "An Academy of Natural History" -- "As good-humoured a nondescript Otatheitan as ever!" -- "Loves of the Plants" -- Epilogue.
650 0 $aHorticulturists$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aPlant collectors$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aGardening$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aBotany$xHistory$y18th century.
600 10 $aBartram, John,$d1699-1777$xInfluence.
600 10 $aCollinson, Peter,$d1694-1768$xInfluence.
852 00 $bglx$hSB61$i.W85 2010g