Virgin Earth

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Virgin Earth is a tour-de-force of powerful politics, personal discovery and glorious gardening detail from one of our most acclaimed novelists. John Tradescant the Younger has inh erited his father's unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability 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. 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. In this terrific, free-standing sequel to Earthly Joys, Philippa Gregory again shows why she is hailed as 'the first lady of intelligent historical fiction' by the Sunday Times. Format: Softback - Really good condition for its age Publisher: HarperCollins Published: 1999 ISBN: 0002256487 Show more