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Andrea Wulf: The Brother Gardeners (Hardcover, 2009, Alfred A. Knopf) 4 stars

This is the fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain …

Andrea Wulf dives into the history of european, especially british garden culture. How came that cool England became during 17th and 18th centuryone if not the leading nation in gardening? What had the mutiny on Bounty to do with that? Great book if you are interested in plants, history and colonialism.