Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants |
 enlarge | Author: Jennifer Potter
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 642817
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6.2 x 1.8
ISBN: 1590200381
Dewey Decimal Number: 509
EAN: 9781590200384
ASIN: 1590200381
Publication Date: May 29, 2008
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Book Description
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, as collectors and above all as exemplars of an age that began in wonder and ended with the dawning of science. Jennifer Potter's book evokes vividly the drama of their lives and takes its readers to the edge of an expanding universe. Strange Blooms is a magnificent pleasure for gardeners and non-gardeners alike.
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