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Andrea Wulf
Historian and Author
Andrea Wulf is a German-British historian who writes about the people who changed how the natural world is understood. The Invention of Nature recovered Alexander von Humboldt, whose idea of nature as a connected web underlies modern ecology and who was once among the most famous men alive. Her other books include Founding Gardeners, Chasing Venus and Magnificent Rebels, and she works from letters, diaries and the ground her subjects actually walked.
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Notes on the State of Virginia
by Thomas Jefferson · 1785 · Non-Fiction
“Monticello is a garden that celebrates the American landscape” — via Interview, December 2010
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Founding Brothers
The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph J. Ellis · 2000 · Non-Fiction
“instead of writing a massive 700-page book, he just gives you seven events which will tell you everything you need to know” — via Interview, December 2010
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A Little History of British Gardening
by Jenny Uglow · 2004 · Non-Fiction
“I think that Jenny Uglow is an absolutely wonderful writer.” — via Interview, December 2010
