Jordan Goodman - Planting the World

Preface

11. 1791: ‘An Intertropical Abode’: Afzelius in Sierra Leone

12. 1792: Macartney, Staunton and the China Embassy

13. 1793: The Accidental Naturalist in Qianlong’s Empire

14. 1794: To Calcutta and Back

PART IV: FIFTH QUARTER OF THE WORLD

Preface

15. 1795: The Farrier’s Son Finds Banks

16. 1800: Caley and Moowattin

17. 1800: Not Since the Endeavour

18. 1801: Australia Circumnavigated and Beyond

PART V: BOTANICAL DIPLOMACY AND THE TROPICS

Preface

19. 1803: William Kerr in Canton

20. 1812: And Still Not First-Hand

21. 1814: Accidentally in Brazil with Bowie and Cunningham

22. 1815: Lockhart Survives the Congo

Epilogue

Postscript

Picture Section

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Also by Jordan Goodman

About the Publisher

Key

The Atlantic

The Pacific

Indian Ocean, southeast Asia and China seas

China and Japan

India

Australia

Pacific Northwest

PEOPLE

Joseph Banks, oil portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, after 1795. ( © Trustees of the British Museum )

Archibald Menzies, oil portrait by E.U. Eddis, 1836. ( Linnean Society of London )

Francis Masson, oil portrait by George Garrard, 1887. ( Linnean Society of London )

John and Alexander Duncan. ( Courtesy of Cathy and Andrew Duncan )

Allan Cunningham, oil portrait, c .1835. ( National Library of Australia PIC Screen 51 #R88 )

Portrait of Sir John Barrow (1764–1848). ( Wellcome Collection . Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 )

Matthew Flinders, c .1800, watercolour miniature portrait. ( Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales )

Captain William Bligh. ( GL Archive/Alamy Stock Photo )

Robert Brown. Line engraving by C. Fox, 1837, after H. W. Pickersgill. ( Wellcome Collection . Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 )

George Macartney and George Staunton. Pencil, pen and ink, wash and watercolours. Images taken from Album of 372 Drawings of Landscapes, Coastlines, Costumes and Everyday Life Made during Lord Macartney’s Embassy to the Emperor of China. Originally published/produced in 1792–1794. ( © British Library Board. All rights reserved/Bridgeman Images )

Daniel Charles Solander. Lithograph by Miss Turner after J. Zoffany ( Wellcome Collection . Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 )

Arthur Phillip, oil portrait, 1786, by Francis Wheatley. ( Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales )

THINGS

Drawing of a flat peach made in Canton by John Bradby Blake and Mok Sau c .1773. ( Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, Virginia )

Sketch by William Bligh of the plant nursery on HMS Bounty , 1787. ( Sir Joseph Banks Collection, SS 1:1, Sutro Library, California State Library )

Sketch of plant cabin on HMS Guardian , 1789. ( Sir Joseph Banks Collection, G 1:5, Sutro Library, California State Library )

The mutineers turning Lieutenant Bligh and part of the officers and crew adrift from HMS Bounty , painted and engraved by Robert Dodd, 1796. ( Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales )

HMS Providence and HMS Assistant at the Lizard, 1791, watercolour by Lieutenant George Tobin. ( State Library of New South Wales, SAFE/PXA 563 )

William Alexander’s watercolour drawing of an opuntia and cochineal from Rio de Janeiro, 1792. ( Sir Joseph Banks Collection, En 1:20, Sutro Library, California State Library )

Breadfruit, 1792, watercolour by Lieutenant George Tobin. ( State Library of New South Wales, SAFE/PXA 563 )

White peony by an unknown Chinese artist, c .1794–6. ( Courtesy of Cathy and Andrew Duncan )

A view of Funchal, Madeira, oil painting by William Hodges ( 1744–97). (Art Collection 2/Alamy Stock Photo )

Transplanting of the bread fruit trees from Otaheite, painting by Thomas Gosse, 1796. ( Historic Images/Alamy Stock Photo )

PLACES

The library at the home of Joseph Banks, Soho Square, undated drawing attributed to Ralph Lucas (1796–1874). ( Natural History Museum )

Kew Gardens: the Pagoda and Bridge, 1762, oil painting by Richard Wilson. ( Yale Center for British Art, B1976.7.172, Paul Mellon Collection )

Cape Town, 1791, watercolour by Lieutenant George Tobin. ( State Library of New South Wales, SAFE/PXA 563 )

Adventure Bay, 1792, watercolour by Lieutenant George Tobin. ( State Library of New South Wales, SAFE/PXA 563 )

Point Venus, Matavai Bay, 1792, watercolour by Lieutenant George Tobin. ( State Library of New South Wales, SAFE/PXA 563 )

Presidio at Monterey, c .1792, watercolour by William Alexander (after John Sykes). ( Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection, Newberry Library )

Friendly Cove, Nootka Sound, c .1792, watercolour by William Alexander. ( Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection, Newberry Library )

Qianlong’s court (showing George Thomas Staunton on one knee in front of the Emperor), 1793, watercolour by William Alexander. ( Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens. Gilbert Davis Collection )

A scene at Tientsin, 1793, engraving by William Alexander, The Costume of China , 1805.

View of Sir Edward Pellew’s Group, Gulf of Carpentaria, c .1802, oil painting by William Westall. ( ZBA7944, © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London )

The European factories, Canton, 1806, oil painting by William Daniell. ( Yale Center for British Art, B1981.25.210, Paul Mellon Collection )

The road to the home of Baron von Langsdorff on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, 1817–18, watercolour by Thomas Ender. ( HZ 13845, Graphic Collection Academy of Fine Arts Vienna )

A panorama of São Paulo, 1817–18, watercolour by Thomas Ender. ( HZ 13309, Graphic Collection, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna )

Clarke Abel (1780–1826). Surgeon to the Amherst embassy to China 1816–17

Adam Afzelius (1750–1837). Botanist, student of Linnaeus, Swedenborgian, hired by Sierra Leone Company and Banks’s plant collector in Sierra Leone 1792–6