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Buy this book on-line LAMB,CHRISTIAN: : THIS INFANT ADVENTURE: Offspring of the Royal Gardens at Kew.[Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.BENE FACTUM PUBLISHING LTD.,2010. ISBN 9781903071298.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,blue ink signature - without dedication to foot of half-title page,no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,colour pictorial/photographic illustrated dw/dj with b/w+red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Rear panel of dw/dj is lightly scored with some indentations.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean and pristine,solid and sound - virtually as new - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread? Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,
plain dark green cloth bds with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/
backstrip and immaculate plain white eps. UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,5- 224pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,acknowledgements +credits,foreword (by Tim Smit,CBE; Founder of the Eden Project,Cornwall),author's intro.10 chapters+postscript,profuse contemporary,
b/w+colour illustrations and photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] author SIGNED - without dedication - half- title page and title-page.An uncommon, SIGNED edn.
From Tim Smit's foreword: "What Christian Lamb's important and enlightening book illustrates is that the new botanic gardens were the heartbeat of an empire. The plant hunters and their administrative colleagues should be seen as not eccentric adventurers - no,the proper context if one were to draw a parallel with the present day would be with the giants of silicon valley - such as Bill Gates,Steve Jobs and so on.
No group of people in history so transformed the economic,political and cultural landscape as the plant hunters and the great botanical gardens that acted as the hubs and planners fo this great pursuit.
Imagine a world without industrial amounts of rubber,quinine,tea,coffee, cocoa,spices and so on and without the great corporations and financial institutions that evolved on the back of them and you see a very different world.
These men literally created the foundations for global markets and historically the tragedy of their legacy is that their real importance is overshadowed by the mythology of exploration.The real genius lay in the organising of their discoveries into industrial packages that would shake the world we know today.
This book,disarmingly presented as a miscellany of botanic garden histories reveals so much more than that - it shines a light on an extraordinary period of history and the people who made it...
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