Planting the WorldBased on meticulous research in original sources Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting centred at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks transformed the earth. Botany was the darling and the powerhouse of the eighteenth century. As European ships ventured across the

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