Strange Blooms
The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants
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Word Count
124,000 words, Guess
Page Count
496 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivestrangebloomscur0000pott
- ISBN-101590200381
- ISBN-139781590200384
- LibraryThing1775584
- Goodreads2457182
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- Library of Congress Control Number2007367243
- OCLC Control Number70882252
- Open LibraryOL12367929M
Classifications
- LCCQH26 .P65 2006
- DDC580.922
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. The man responsible for introducing many of these plants to Britain was John Tradescant. His fabulous collection became Britain's first public museum. Tradescant's only son (also John) was his apprentice. This work tells the Tradescants' story - as gardeners, as collectors and above all as exemplars of an age that began in wonder and ended with the dawning of science.
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