American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic /

American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic /

One goal drove Hosack above all others, to build the Republic's first botanical garden. Despite innumerable obstacles and near-constant resistance, Hosack triumphed when his Elgin Botanic Garden at last crowned twenty acres of Manhattan farmland by 1810. What remains today of America's fir...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Victoria, 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Hosack, David, > 1769-1835.
Medical botanists > United States > Biography.
Botany, Medical > United States.
Physicians.
Botany.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
United States.

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