Planting the World: Joseph Banks & his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany

This book presents a history of botany and global plant collecting, centered at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks and how he transformed the earth. During the 18th century, European ships’ voyages across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans brought back bounties of new plants, offering a new scientific frontier that would transform Europe’s industry, medicine, eating, and drinking habits, and even fashion.

Author Jordan Goodman’s epic history follows these high seas adventurers and their influence in Europe, as well as Banks’ devoted development of Kew Gardens into one of the world’s largest and most diverse botanical gardens. Based on original sources in many languages, Goodman gives a momentous history of how Banks and his collectors advanced scientific understanding globally.

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