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020			_a9780099502371
028			_a: Technical Bureau India _b: 4794/23, Ansari Road, darya Ganj, New Delhi _c: TB2439 _d: 19/10/2026
082			_a635.09 WUL
100			_aWulf, Andrea.
245			_aThe Brother Gardeners _b: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession. _c/ Andrea Wulf.
260			_aLondon _b: Windmill Books, _c, 2008.
300			_a356p. _c: 16cm.
365			_b629.30
520			_aOne January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds... Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hundreds of American species to England, where Collinson was one of a handful of men who would foster a national obsession and change the gardens of Britain forever: Philip Miller, author of the bestselling Gardeners Dictionary; the Swede Carl Linnaeus, whose standardised botanical nomenclature popularised botany; the botanist-adventurer Joseph Banks and his colleague Daniel Solander who both explored the strange flora of Tahiti and Australia on Captain Cook's Endeavour. This is the story of these men - friends, rivals, enemies, united by a passion for plants. Set against the backdrop of the emerging empire and the uncharted world beyond, The Brother Gardeners tells the story how Britain became a nation of gardeners.
650			_aHorticulturists
650			_aGreat Britain
650			_aPlant collectors
700			_aAndrea Wulf.
942			_cBOOK
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