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Alexander von Humboldt's New World
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturali...
The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young ...
The Race to Measure the Heavens
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 V...
The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner
WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson 'Dazzling' Lite...
Meet Alexander von Humboldt: the great lost scientist, visionary, thinker and daring explorer; the man who first predicted climate change, who has mor...
How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden
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 J...
Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
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...
Seven Great Gardens & 300 Years of English History
THIS OTHER EDEN is a captivating narrative of seven great gardens, beautiful canvases that represent not just pleasure grounds but a country's evoluti...
La aventura filosófica de un grupo de jóvenes rebeldes, el Círculo de Jena, que dieron lugar al Romanticismo y a nuestra comprensión moderna de la...
Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
A celebration of parks and public gardens by renowned landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz, whose designs reflect the histories that are held...
Perspectives from the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Both exhibition and book celebrate the society's 225th year. Distributed for the Massachusetts Historical Society...