American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic /
Johnson, Victoria, 1969-
American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic / Victoria Johnson. - [First Liveright paperback edition]. - xiv, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits (some color) ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-436) and index.
This work "traces Hosack's passionate devotion to his fellow citizens: from the medical care he offered in festering sickrooms of Manhattan, to his critical presence at the fateful duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and through his founding of the nation's first public botanical garden on farmland that is now home to Rockefeller Center...American Eden is an intimate personal drama and a sweeping political and environmental history of the early Republic." --
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2019. National Book Award finalist, 2018.
1631496018 9781631496011
Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
Botany, Medical--United States.
Medical botanists--United States.
QK99 .U6 / J64 2019
580.973
American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic / Victoria Johnson. - [First Liveright paperback edition]. - xiv, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits (some color) ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-436) and index.
This work "traces Hosack's passionate devotion to his fellow citizens: from the medical care he offered in festering sickrooms of Manhattan, to his critical presence at the fateful duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and through his founding of the nation's first public botanical garden on farmland that is now home to Rockefeller Center...American Eden is an intimate personal drama and a sweeping political and environmental history of the early Republic." --
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2019. National Book Award finalist, 2018.
1631496018 9781631496011
Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
Botany, Medical--United States.
Medical botanists--United States.
QK99 .U6 / J64 2019
580.973