Planting the world : Joseph Banks and his collectors : an adventurous history of botany
Goodman, Jordan2020
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Botany was both the darling and powerhouse of the Enlightenment. As European ships began to venture across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, discovery bloomed. Bounties of new plants were brought back, and their arrival transformed Europe's science, industry, diet and fashion - not to mention private gardens. Joseph Banks led this charge. As botanist for Cook's great voyage to the South Pacific on The Endeavour, he ordered the collection of plants on an enormous scale, armed with the vision - as a child of the Enlightenment - that scientific advancement was the key to political and economic progress. In a rip-roaring expedition around the world, and based on original sources in many languages, Jordan Goodman gives an epic history of how adventure, discovery, science became the roots of the world.
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Author:
Goodman, Jordan, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2020.
Collation:
xxxix, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780007578832 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1126700
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