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Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants
Jennifer Potter
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Description for Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants
paperback. Now in paperback, this 'wonderful book' (Jane Stevenson, Daily Telegraph) describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants, father and son, immortalized in Philippa Gregory's bestselling novels Earthly Joys and Virgin Earth. Num Pages: 496 pages, Integrated black & white images throughout. 2 x 8pp black & white plates and 4pp colour p. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; BGH; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 482.
In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of 'curious' gardeners were 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 ended with the dawning of science. Jennifer Potter's book vividly evokes the drama of their lives and takes its readers to the edge of an expanding universe. Strange Blooms is a magnificent pleasure for gardeners and non-gardeners alike. This 'wonderful ... Read more
In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of 'curious' gardeners were 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 ended with the dawning of science. Jennifer Potter's book vividly evokes the drama of their lives and takes its readers to the edge of an expanding universe. Strange Blooms is a magnificent pleasure for gardeners and non-gardeners alike. This 'wonderful ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843543350
SKU
9781843543350
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About Jennifer Potter
Jennifer Potter is the author of four novels and five works of non-fiction, most recently Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants; The Rose: A True History; and Seven Flowers and How They Shaped Our World, all three published by Atlantic Books. A regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, she is currently a Royal Literary ... Read more
Reviews for Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants
Masterly... Jennifer Potter's achievement in Strange Blooms is to have breathed life back into the Tradescant name.
Alexander Urquhart
TLS
Forget Alan Titchmarsh - it's the Tradescants of Jennifer Potter's Strange Blooms we should really salute... Beautifully produced and meticulously researched.
Andrea Wulf
Observer
The Renaissance delight in the sheer protean variety of stuff ... Read more
Alexander Urquhart
TLS
Forget Alan Titchmarsh - it's the Tradescants of Jennifer Potter's Strange Blooms we should really salute... Beautifully produced and meticulously researched.
Andrea Wulf
Observer
The Renaissance delight in the sheer protean variety of stuff ... Read more