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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…
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5 editions- Paperback · English · 2006Touchstone · 672 pages · 9780743272537
- Other · English · 2006HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 576 pages · 9780007228485
- Other · English · 2000HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 566 pages · 9780006511762
- Other · English · 1999HarperCollins · 566 pages · 9780002257596
- Other · English · 1999St. Martin's Press · 566 pages · 9780312206178
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