Planting the World: Joseph Banks and His Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany by Jordan Goodman

Planting the World: Joseph Banks and His Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany

Jordan Goodman

560 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science informative medium-paced
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A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting - centred at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks - transformed the earth.Botany was the darling and the powerhouse of the eighteenth century. As European ships ventured across the Atl...

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