Planting the world : Joseph Banks and his collectors : an adventurous history of botany / Jordan Goodman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodman, Jordan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820.

Banks, Joseph.

Botany--History--18th century.

Botany.

Plant collecting--History--18th century.

Plant collecting.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : William Collins, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I TO EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH

Preface

1. 1772: Masson Roams the Atlantic

2. 1779: Return to Botany Bay by Way of Southwest Africa

3. 1780: The First Circumnavigation of Archibald Menzies

4. 1782: The Brothers Duncan in Canton

5. 1786: The Madras Naturalists and Dreams of Oaxaca

pt. II FLOATING GARDENS AND THE COTTON CLUB

6. 1786: The First and Second Fleet

7. 1787: Anthony Pantaleon Hove in Gujarat

8. 1787: Mr Nelson's Unfortunate Bounty Voyage

9. 1790: The Second Circumnavigation of Archibald Menzies

10. 1791: The Gardeners of the Providence

pt. III AN EMBASSY, A FREE TOWN AND A PLANT EXCHANGE

11. 1791: `An Intertropical Abode': Afzelius in Sierra Leone

12. i792: Macartney, Staunton and the China Embassy

13. 1793: The Accidental Naturalist in Qianlong's Empire

14. 1794: To Calcutta and Back

pt. IV FIFTH QUARTER OF THE WORLD

15. 1795: The Farrier's Son Finds Banks

16. 1800: Caley and Moowattin

17. 1800: Not Since the Endeavour

18. 1801: Australia Circumnavigated and Beyond

pt. V BOTANICAL DIPLOMACY AND THE TROPICS

19. 1803: William Kerr in Canton

20. 1812: And Still Not First-Hand

21. 1814: Accidentally in Brazil with Bowie and Cunningham

22. 1815: Lockhart Survives the Congo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780007578832

0007578830

OCLC:

1144775306