Andrea Wulf

The Founding Gardeners

How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Windmill Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 614468
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 131mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780099525622
• ISBN-10: 0099525623
• Artikelnr.: 34382275

Autorenporträt

Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She lives in London and is the author of several books, including The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Winner of the 2015 Costa Biography Award and the 2016 Royal Society Science Book Prize) and Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self. A member of PEN American Center and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is currently a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute.

Rezensionen

EXCELLENT... Wulf writes enthrallingly. Wonderfully illuminating and readable Daily Telegraph