He is adopted into the Powhatan people of Virginia and marries his guide to the world, Suckahanna. 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. Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist colony of Virginia in America.īut the virgin land is not uninhabited.
But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War.
John Tradescant the younger has inherited his father’s unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to be able to nurture them. Virgin Earth is a tour-de-force of powerful politics, personal discovery and glorious gardening details from one of our most acclaimed novelists.
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