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1) Earthly joys
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#1 New York Times bestselling author and "queen of royal fiction" (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory brings to life the passionate, turbulent times of seventeenth-century England as seen through the eyes of the country's most famous royal gardener.
John Tradescant's fame and skill as a gardener are unsurpassed in seventeenth-century England, but it is his clear-sighted honesty and loyalty that make him an invaluable servant. As an...
John Tradescant's fame and skill as a gardener are unsurpassed in seventeenth-century England, but it is his clear-sighted honesty and loyalty that make him an invaluable servant. As an...
2) Virgin earth
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Tradescant volume 2
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In Colonial America, an English botanist saved from misfortune by an Indian maiden promises to marry her, but on his return to England marries a rich Englishwoman. Later, back in America, he is again saved by the maiden's tribe and now the Indians are at war with the English. Whose side will he take?
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This beautifully written and gorgeously produced book describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants, father and son. In 17th-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...
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