{"product_id":"planting-the-world-joseph-banks-and-his-collectors-an-adventurous-history-of-botany-paperback","title":"Planting the World: Joseph Banks and His Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJordan Goodman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e'Based on meticulous research in original sources ... Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was ... Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJenny Uglow, \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting - centred at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks - transformed the earth.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBotany 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJordan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJordan Goodman is Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Rattlesnake: A Voyage of Discovery to the Coral Sea\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Devil and Mr Casement\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePaul Robeson: A Watched Man\u003c\/em\u003e. He has published extensively on the history of medicine and science, and cultural and economic history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 14, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728491384895,"sku":"9780007578863","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/95e478fde0cf88aeb1745c5a060904d8.webp?v=1765118703","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/planting-the-world-joseph-banks-and-his-collectors-an-adventurous-history-of-botany-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}