The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants
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The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants
by Smith, Jane S. | HC | Good
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A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. scuff marks, but no holes or tears. If this is a hard cover, the dust jacket may be missing. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. No highlighting of text, no writing in the margins, and no missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781594202094
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594202095
ISBN-13
9781594202094
eBay Product ID (ePID)
69705061
Product Key Features
Book Title
Garden of Invention : Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Botany, Modern / 20th Century, Modern / 19th Century, Environmentalists & Naturalists
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-001822
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
630.92 B
Synopsis
A wide-ranging and delightful narrative history of the celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth-century America A century ago, Luther Burbank was the most famous gardener on the planet. His name was inseparable from a cornucopia of new and improved plants, fruits, nuts, vegetables, and flowers, for both home gardens and commercial farms and orchards. At a time when the science of genetics was in its infancy and agriculture was often a perilous combination of guess work and luck, many people wanted a piece of the man they called the Wizard of Santa Rosa. As the United States moved from a nation of farms to a nation of city dwellers, the people behind the new products that transformed daily life were admired with a fervor that is not accorded to their present-day counterparts. Everyone knew and marveled at Samuel Morse's telegraph, Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, and Thomas Edison's electric light. And like these other great American inventors, Burbank was revered as an example of the best tradition of American originality, ingenuity, and perseverance. Burbank had learned the secret of teaching nature to perform for man, breeding and crossbreeding ordinary plants from farm and garden until they were tastier, hardier, and more productive than ever before. The Garden of Inventionis neither an encyclopedia nor a biography. Rather, Jane S. Smith, a noted cultural historian, highlights significant moments in Burbank's life (itself a fascinating story) and uses them to explore larger trends that he embodied and, in some cases, shaped. The Garden of Inventionrevisits the early years of bioengineering, when plant inventors were popular heroes and the public clamored for new varieties that would extend seasons, increase yields, look beautiful, or simply be wonderfully different from anything seen before. The road from the nineteenth-century farm to twenty-first-century agribusiness is full of twists and turns, of course, but a good part of it passed straight through Luther Burbank's garden. The Garden of Inventionis a colorful and engrossing examination of the intersection of gardening, science, and business in the years between the Civil War and the Great Depression., A delightful narrative history of the celebrated plant-breeder Luther Burbank in early 20th-century America, "The Garden of Invention" is a colorful and engrossing examination of gardening, science, and business in the years between the Civil War and the Great Depression.
LC Classification Number
SB63.B9S635 2009
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