Andrea Wulf

Broschiertes Buch

The Founding Gardeners

How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Andrea Wulf 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 Roual Society Science Book Prize) and Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self (A 2022 Times, Spectator, Prospect, Sunday Times, Economist, New Statesman, Telegraph, Financial Times, TLS, New York Times, and Washington Post Book of the Year). 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.

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

Rezensionen

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