Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants by Jennifer Potter

Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants

Jennifer Potter

496 pages 2006

2 editions

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
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In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of `curious' gardeners was pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change: as gardeners...

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