Botanical riches : stories of botanical exploration /
By: Aitken, Richard.
Publisher: Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, VT : Lund Humphries, 2007Description: xi, 243 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 33 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0853319553 (alk. paper); 9780853319559:; 9780853319559 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Archaeology![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235) and index.
Pt. I. Plants of the ancient and classical worlds : from the dawn of time to the 1450s. Timeless traditions -- The Fertile Crescent -- Ancient Egypt -- Ancient India -- Mesoamerican and Andean civilisations -- Mediterranean civilisations -- The Silk Road to Cathay and beyond -- The rise of Islam -- The Renaissance -- Pt. II. The great age of maritime exploration : from the 1450s to the 1750s. Empire building in the Golden Age -- The New World -- Imperial tales of the Near East -- Exploring the Far East -- European colonisation of the Americas -- The Cape unveiled -- Taking stock -- Pt. III. Scientific imperialism and exotic botany : from the 1750s to the 1900s. The reach of empire -- New Holland and the South Pacific -- Erica-mania -- Anglo-India and the Dutch East Indies -- North America's western frontier -- Central and South America -- Piercing the Oriental armour -- Commerce and the insatiable taste for novelty -- Pt. IV. Living fossils : the 1900s and beyond. Wollemi dreaming.
Engraved, lithographed and hand-coloured illustrations from the renowned and extensive collection of the State Library of Victoria accompany this history of the discovery of plants and the establishment of gardens.