An edition of Virgin Earth (1999)

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An edition of Virgin Earth (1999)

Virgin Earth

1st U.S. ed.
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Virgin Earth is a tour-de-force of powerful politics, personal discovery and glorious gardening details from one of our most acclaimed novelists. John Tradescant the younger has inherited his father’s unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to be able to nurture them. But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War. Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist colony of Virginia in America.

But the virgin land is not uninhabited. John’s plant hunting brings him to live with the native people, and he learns to love and respect their way of life just as it is threatened by the colonial settlers. He is adopted into the Powhatan people of Virginia and marries his guide to the world, Suckahanna. Just as his political life is divided between royalist and rebel, his plant hunting and nurturing between England and America, he finds his emotional life is divided between the English woman he married for convenience and the Powhatan woman he married for desire.
In the new world and the old, the established order is breaking down and every family has to find its own way of surviving. For the Tradescants, through the upheavals of the Commonwealth and the Restoration, this means consolidating their reputations as the greatest gardeners in the country.

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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
566

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Cover of: Virgin Earth
Virgin Earth
March 21, 2006, Touchstone
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Virgin Earth
2005, Simon & Schuster
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Virgin earth
2000
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Cover of: Virgin Earth
Virgin Earth
1999, St. Martin's Press
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Edition Notes

Book 2

Published in
New York
Series
Tradescant
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6057.R386 V57 1999, PR6057.R386V57 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
566 p. :
Number of pages
566

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL47811M
Internet Archive
virginearth0000greg_f2l3
ISBN 10
0312206178
LCCN
99048489
OCLC/WorldCat
42598450
Library Thing
123179
Goodreads
1025677

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