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A global history of botany and plant collecting in 18th century based on original research in many languages.Joseph Banks, botanist for Cook’s great voyage to the South Pacific on The Endeavour, was a child of the Enlightenment. He believed that reason, in the shape of scientific knowledge, was the key to political and economic progress. He was also what Malcolm Gladwell terms ‘a connector’. In the second half of the 18th century, people who wanted something done in science and exploration went to Banks. And what Banks cared most about was botany.Botany was the darling of European science in this period. A bounty of new plants was found wherever European ships ventured, in the Atlantic, the Indian and the Pacific Oceans. Exotic plants entered and changed Europe in many different ways: as ornamental varieties that began to adorn private gardens; or medicinal agents applied to cure what had been considered incurable conditions; or industrial raw materials; or as new and brilliant dyes. This was a time when travelling physically also meant travelling intellectually. Banks and his fellow pioneers were expanding the horizons of knowledge itself.Jordan Goodman’s brilliant, epic history tells how science changed the balance of powers in the world. Each of its thirteen chapters follows a different expedition or mission set in motion by Banks – Masson’s voyage to Cape Colony, Staunton’s plant hunting in China, James Bowie in Australia, Bligh in Tahiti and Jamaica, Roxburgh and the founding of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, to name just a few. It is a vast story, spanning every continent – a huge jigsaw, told through meticulous use of Banks’s 20,000 extant letters, scattered across the globe from San Francisco to Australia. This is a book that tells great stories, on every continent of the planet.

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PLANTING THE WORLD

Joseph Banks and His Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany

Jordan Goodman

Copyright CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Maps List of - фото 1

Copyright CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Maps List of Illustrations Dramatis Personae Prologue Introduction: Joseph Banks and Kew PART I: TO EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH Preface 1. 1772: Masson Roams the Atlantic 2. 1779: Return to Botany Bay by Way of Southwest Africa 3. 1780: The First Circumnavigation of Archibald Menzies 4. 1782: The Brothers Duncan in Canton 5. 1786: The Madras Naturalists and Dreams of Oaxaca PART II: FLOATING GARDENS AND THE COTTON CLUB Preface 6. 1786: The First and Second Fleet 7. 1787: Anthony Pantaleon Hove in Gujarat 8. 1787: Mr Nelson’s Unfortunate Bounty Voyage 9. 1790: The Second Circumnavigation of Archibald Menzies 10. 1791: The Gardeners of the Providence PART III: AN EMBASSY, A FREE TOWN AND A PLANT EXCHANGE 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

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This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2020

Jordan Goodman asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

Maps by Martin Brown

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Version: 2020-04-06

Dedication CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Maps List of Illustrations Dramatis Personae Prologue Introduction: Joseph Banks and Kew PART I: TO EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH Preface 1. 1772: Masson Roams the Atlantic 2. 1779: Return to Botany Bay by Way of Southwest Africa 3. 1780: The First Circumnavigation of Archibald Menzies 4. 1782: The Brothers Duncan in Canton 5. 1786: The Madras Naturalists and Dreams of Oaxaca PART II: FLOATING GARDENS AND THE COTTON CLUB Preface 6. 1786: The First and Second Fleet 7. 1787: Anthony Pantaleon Hove in Gujarat 8. 1787: Mr Nelson’s Unfortunate Bounty Voyage 9. 1790: The Second Circumnavigation of Archibald Menzies 10. 1791: The Gardeners of the Providence PART III: AN EMBASSY, A FREE TOWN AND A PLANT EXCHANGE 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

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Epigraph CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Maps List of Illustrations Dramatis Personae Prologue Introduction: Joseph Banks and Kew PART I: TO EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH Preface 1. 1772: Masson Roams the Atlantic 2. 1779: Return to Botany Bay by Way of Southwest Africa 3. 1780: The First Circumnavigation of Archibald Menzies 4. 1782: The Brothers Duncan in Canton 5. 1786: The Madras Naturalists and Dreams of Oaxaca PART II: FLOATING GARDENS AND THE COTTON CLUB Preface 6. 1786: The First and Second Fleet 7. 1787: Anthony Pantaleon Hove in Gujarat 8. 1787: Mr Nelson’s Unfortunate Bounty Voyage 9. 1790: The Second Circumnavigation of Archibald Menzies 10. 1791: The Gardeners of the Providence PART III: AN EMBASSY, A FREE TOWN AND A PLANT EXCHANGE 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

‘I envy you your situation within two miles of an Erupting Volcano you will easily guess I read your Letters with that Kind of Fidgetty anziety which continuously upbraids me for not being in a similar Situation I envy you I pity myself I blame myself & then begin to tumble over my Dried Plants in hopes to put such wishes out of my head which now I am tied by the leg to an armchair I must with diligence suppress’

Joseph Banks to William Hamilton, 4 December 1778

CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page PLANTING THE WORLD Joseph Banks and His Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany Jordan Goodman

Dedication

Epigraph

Maps

List of Illustrations

Dramatis Personae

Prologue

Introduction: Joseph Banks and Kew

PART I: TO EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH