Brett Kochendorfer rated The brother gardeners: 5 stars

The brother gardeners by Andrea Wulf
This is the fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of gardeners and …
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This is the fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of gardeners and …
A. S. Wilkins: Making faces (2017)
This book sets out to reconstruct the evolutionary history of the human face, in terms of both the fossil evidence …
Joel F. Harrington: The faithful executioner (2013, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
"The extraordinary story of a Renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journal In the late …
The Cheese and the Worms (Italian: Il formaggio e i vermi) is a scholarly work by the Italian historian Carlo …
This captivating narrative details Napoleon's dramatic invasion of Egypt in 1798, the first attack on a Middle-Eastern country by a …