Garden History

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    • By: Bettany Hughes
    • Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Bestselling historian Bettany Hughes walks through the landscapes of both ancient and modern time; on a journey whose purpose is to ask why we wonder, why we create, why we choose to remember the wonder of others....

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    • By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
    • Narrated by: Johanna Ward
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 595 ratings
    • Mary Lennox, an ill-tempered child, comes to live with her uncle in Misselthwaite Manor after the death of her parents. There, she finds the door to a secret garden, neglected for years...

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    • In Search of a Common Paradise
    • By: Olivia Laing
    • Narrated by: Olivia Laing
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.

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    • A History of Food and Class in Britain
    • By: Pen Vogler
    • Narrated by: Emma Gregory
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In this fascinating social history of food in Britain, Pen Vogler examines the origins of our eating habits and reveals how they are loaded with centuries of class prejudice....

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    • Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
    • By: Alice Vincent
    • Narrated by: Fiona Hampton
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work....

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    • By: Paul Freedman
    • Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
    • Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • From Delmonico's to Sylvia's to Chez Panisse, a daring and original history of dining out in America as told through 10 legendary restaurants....

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    • The Extraordinary Life and Gardens of a Forgotten Genius
    • By: Sandra Lawrence
    • Narrated by: Heather Tracy
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Ellen Ann Willmott was a remarkable woman whose achievements in horticulture, botany, landscape architecture, photography and more should have made her one of the most well-known trailblazers of her age....

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    • Their Natural and Unnatural Histories
    • By: Janet Lembke
    • Narrated by: Katherine Dyer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Chickens: Their Natural and Unnatural Histories explores the history of the chicken from its descent from the dinosaurs to the space-age present....

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    • Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables
    • By: Adam Alexander, Tim Lang - foreword
    • Narrated by: Calum Beaton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Have you ever wondered how peas, kale, asparagus, beans, squash, and corn have ended up on our plates? Well, Adam Alexander has. In The Seed Detective, Adam shares his own stories of seed hunting, with the origin stories behind many of our everyday food heroes....

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    • A World Tour of Botanical Adventures, Chance Discoveries and Strange Specimens
    • By: Ambra Edwards, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
    • Narrated by: Ambra Edwards
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The Plant Hunter's Atlas is a volume telling some of the most extraordinary tales of horticultural discovery and exploring the characters behind the stories....

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    • Epic Tales of Everyday Ingredients
    • By: Mark Riddaway
    • Narrated by: Rich Keeble
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In Borough Market: Edible Histories, award-winning food writer Mark Riddaway takes us on a culinary journey through the most fascinating, surprising and downright bizarre stories behind Britain's favourite tipples and nibbles....

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    • How Golf Legends Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson Got Their Starts at the Same Course
    • By: Jeff Miller
    • Narrated by: Liam O'Brien
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Learn about these golf legends as they were learning to master the game on their home turf....

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    • By: Anna Pavord
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 28-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The Tulip is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has made men mad....

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    • A Beginner's Guide to Understanding the History, Basics and Care of Miniature Trees
    • By: T. Min
    • Narrated by: Curt Caster
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 25-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Unlock the secrets to thriving bonsai–no green thumb required! Are you overwhelmed by the endless rules and techniques of bonsai care? With straightforward guidance, even beginners can make a bonsai thrive!

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    • Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate
    • By: John H. Walton, N.T. Wright
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • For centuries, the story of Adam and Eve has resonated richly through the corridors of art, literature, and theology. But for most moderns, taking it at face value is incongruous....

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    • The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
    • By: Amy Stewart
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub....

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    • An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
    • By: Martha Sherrill
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Martha Sherrill brings us to a world that Americans know very little about---the snow country of Japan during World War II....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
    • By: Michael Krondl
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this engaging, anecdotal history of food, world conquest, and desire, a chef-turned-journalist tells the story of three legendary cities that transformed the globe in the quest for spice....

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    • Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Berlin, 1933. William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered academic from Chicago, has become America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proves to be a turning point in history....

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