<p>One 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...<br><br>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 <i>Gardeners Dictionary</i>; 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 <i>Endeavou</i>r.<br><br>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, <i>The Brother G
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<p>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...
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<p><b>The next thrilling and magical adventure set in the multi million copy bestselling world of <i>The Spook''s Apprentice.</i></b><br><br>Wulf has left behind his life in the monastery and is now...
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<p>Wulf must face his greatest enemy yet - and this time, he''s all alone . . .<br><br>Wulf is at war - war against the Dark. As Pan''s soldier and champion, it''s his responsibility to fight for what is...
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<p>On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.<br><br>United by this momentous occasion, scientists...
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