
The Naming of Names
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Anna Pavord is the gardening correspondent for the Independent and the author of eight previous books, including the bestselling The Tulip. She contributes to a number of magazines, both in the US and the UK, and regularly fronts programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. She chairs the Gardens Panel of the National Trust and sits on the Parks and Gardens Panel of English Heritage.
She lives in Dorset, England, where she spent thirty years restoring the garden of an old rectory. She has recently moved to a new house and started another garden. She is married and has three daughters.
Content
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- INTRODUCTION
- I IN THE BEGINNING
- II ALL MEN BY NATURE DESIRE TO KNOW
- III THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY
- IV PLINY THE PLAGIARIST
- V THE MEDICINE MEN
- VI JULIANA'S BOOK
- VII THE ARAB INFLUENCE
- VIII OUT OF THE BLACK HOLE
- IX THE IMAGE MAKERS
- X THEOPHRASTUS REBORN
- XI BRUNFELS'S BOOK
- XII THE IRASCIBLE FUCHS
- XIII IN ITALY
- XIV THE FIRST BOTANIC GARDEN
- XV THE LONG-NOSED NIT-PICKER
- XVI WEAVING THE WEB
- XVII PROTESTANTS PREVAIL
- XVIII GESNERS MASTERPIECE
- XIX NEW PASTURES
- XX PLANTING TEAM
- XXI THE LAST OF THE HERBALS
- XXII ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENTS
- XXIII THE AMERICAN CONNECTION
- XXIV THE BEGINNING OF THE END
- EPILOGUE
- CHRONOLOGY
- CAST LIST
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
- BY THE SAME AUTHOR
- IMPRINT
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