Planting the world : Joseph Banks and his collectors : an adventurous history of botany / Jordan Goodman.

Botany was the darling and the powerhouse of the eighteenth century. As European ships ventured across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, discovery bloomed. Bounties of new plants were brought back, and their arrival meant much more than improved flowerbeds - it offered a new scientific fronti...

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Main Author: Goodman, Jordan (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
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Physical Description:xxxix, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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