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

by Jordan Goodman

Book Overview

'Based on meticulous research in original sources ... Goodman illustrates vividly how adept Banks] was ... Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated'
Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007578865
• ISBN13: 9780007578863
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: William Collins
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.7"