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Planting the world : Joseph Banks and his collectors : an adventurous history of botany

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  • Description

    "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 frontier that would transform Europe's industry, medicine, eating and drinking habits, and even fashion. Joseph Banks was the dynamo for this momentous change.

    As botanist for James Cook's great voyage to the South Pacific on the Endeavour, Banks collected plants on a vast scale, armed with the vision - as a child of the Enlightenment - that to travel physically was to advance intellectually. His thinking was as intrepid as Cook's seafaring: he commissioned radically influential and physically daring expeditions such as those of Francis Masson to the Cape Colony, George Staunton to China, George Caley to Australia, William Bligh to Tahiti and Jamaica, among many others. Jordan Goodman's epic history follows these high seas adventurers and their influence in Europe, as well as taking us back to the early years of Kew Gardens, which Banks developed devotedly across the course of his life, transforming it into one of the world's largest and most diverse botanical gardens. In a rip-roaring global expedition, based on original sources in many languages, Goodman gives a momentous history of how the discoveries made by Banks and his collectors advanced scientific understanding around the world"--Publisher's description

  • Place
    London, England, United Kingdom
  • Other Id

    Q143.B3 2021 (Library of Congress Call Number)

    92760 (Cat ID)

    92531 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

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  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    Planting the world : Joseph Banks and his collectors : an adventurous history of botany
  • Primary Maker

     Jordan Goodman

  • Contributor/Publisher
    William Collins
  • Place
    London, England, United Kingdom
  • Date
    2021
  • Physical Description

    560 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9780007578863
    0007578865
  • Language
    English
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category

    Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820/Library of Congress subject headings

    Botany/Library of Congress subject headings

  • Content
    CONTENTS
    Maps
    List of Illustrations
    Dramatis Personae
    Prologue
    Introduction: Joseph Banks and Kew
    PART I TO EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH
    Preface
    1772: Masson Roams the Atlantic
    1779: Return to Botany Bay by Way of Southwest Africa
    1780: The First Circumnavigation of Archibald Menzies
    1782: The Brothers Duncan in Canton
    1786: The Madras Naturalists and Dreams of Oaxaca
    PART II FLOATING GARDENS AND THE COTTON CLUB
    Preface
    1786: Hie First and Second Fleet
    1787: Anthony Pantaleon Hove in Gujarat
    1787: Mr Nelson's Unfortunate Voyage
    1790: The Second Circumnavigation of Archibald Menzies
    1791: The Gardeners of the
    Providence
    PART III AN EMBASSY, A FREE TOWN AND A PLANT EXCHANGE
    Preface
    1791: 'An Intertropical Abode': Afzelius in Sierra Leone
    1792: Macartney, Staunton and the China Embassy
    1793: The Accidental Naturalist in Qianlong's Empire
    1794: To Calcutta and Back
    PART IV FIFTH QUARTER OF THE WORLD
    Preface
    1795: The Farriers Son Finds Banks
    1800; Caley and Moowattin
    1800: Not Since the Endeavour
    1801: Australia Circumnavigated and Beyond
    PART V BOTANICAL DIPLOMACY AND THE TROPICS
    Preface
    1803: William Kerr in Canton
    1812: And Still Not First-Hand
    1814: Accidentally in Brazil with Bowie and Cunningham
    1815: Lockhart Survives the Congo
    Epilogue
    Postscript
    Acknowledgements
    Abbreviations
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: Botany - History - 18th century; Plant collecting - History - 18th century; Plant collecting]

    Originally published: 2020 Includes bibliographical references and index New Zealand content on pages 12, 15, 48, 136, 149, 155, 174

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Last Update
    05 Dec 2024
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