Andrea Wulf
Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation Created an American Eden
Paperback
(Windmill Feb. 1, 2012)
V/G to LIKE NEW CONDITION. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. 2011 Windmill books trade paperback, Andrea Wulf (The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World). 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 afterward, these stories that weave the political, the personal and the botanical and are in turns funny, fascinating and moving. The Founding Gardeners show that it is impossible to understand these visionary men and the American nation without considering their love of gardening. - Amazon
- ISBN
- / 9780099525622
- Weight
- 13.4 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.1 x 1.1 in.
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