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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

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