American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

Victoria Johnson with Susan Ericksen (Narrator)

missing duration info Add in missing duration information first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced

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When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than two hundred years ago, he didn't just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of advocacy for public health and wide-r...

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