- Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New edition edition (7 Feb 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006511767
- ISBN-13: 978-0006511762
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 387,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for Philppa Gregory:
‘Subtle and exciting.’ Daily Express
‘Written from instinct, not out of calculation, and it shows.’
Peter Ackroyd, The Times
‘For sheer pace and percussive drama it will take a lot of beating.’ Sunday Times
‘One of Gregory's great strengths as a novelist is her ability to take familiar historical figures and flesh them into living breathing human beings. The Constant Princess is a worthy successor to her previous novels about the Tudors.’ Daily Express
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Sequel to the outstanding historical novel Earthly Joys, and written by the bestselling Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin’s Lover.
John Tradescant the Younger has inherited his father’s unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to nurture them. But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War. Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist colony of Virginia in America. But the virgin land is not uninhabited. 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.
In the new world and the old, the established order is breaking down and every family has to find its own way of surviving. For the Tradescants, through the upheavals of the Commonwealth and the Restoration, this means consolidating their reputations as the greatest gardeners in the country.
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52 of 56 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved Earthly Joys and was eager to read the sequel. I wasn't disappointed! Virgin Earth is the story of John Tradescant the Younger's adventures in the New World. As he tries to survive in a harsh environment, he finds romance. Will he ever return to Tradescant's Ark where his brave wife Hester fights to save the family tradition? (This is also the story of the beginning of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.)This novel has it all, passion, history, tragedy, and a great villain.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Well worth buying. Well written, fantastic story, creates a 17th century world vividly. Very small print, 566 pages so takes some getting through but holds interest well. A must for plant and garden lovers.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After reading the magnificent Earthly Joys I clammered to get my hands on this to see what became of the Tradescant family. I was not disappointed. Philippa Gregory certainly interprets history in a way that helps her weave a captivating story but there are no far fetched assumptions in this book. Her books are like the best history lesson you have ever attended, they catapult the reader to the 1600's as though it were the most natural thing in the world. John Tradescant Junior is an opposite in everyway to his father but carries some of the characteristics that we so admired about JT senior. His life twists and turns in such a way that you fight within yourself whilst working out which route he should take; and then supporting his choices. The detail in this book is magical, one minute you can smell the exotic plants of Virginia and the next you feel as though you are being ravaged by the Civil War.
An inspirational book - will make you search engine crackers for every drop of information that can be had about the Tradescant family.
An inspirational book - will make you search engine crackers for every drop of information that can be had about the Tradescant family.
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virgin earth
This book was chosen as a book club read And was very well reviewed by all members P Gregory's usual well written combination of well researched history and story telling... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Nic
Great Book - Sloppy Editing
The story is great but Harper Collins should be shot for the poor conversion to Kindle. There is a character called "J" in both this and "Earthly Joys" and every sentence in the... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Frustrated
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Phillipa can always be relied on to provide an excellent storyline and a satisfactory ending to all her novels. Read more
Phillipa can always be relied on to provide an excellent storyline and a satisfactory ending to all her novels. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Thomas Page
gardeners' delight
As always this book was very well researched and written, I love the insights into human nature. I felt full sympathy for the main characters and furious with some of the... Read more
Published 9 months ago by P. H. Wilding
Always on the margins
In 1638 John Tradescant the Younger travels to Virginia to collect plants. But when he returns home to England the reign of Charles I has already come into conflict with... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Roman Clodia
virgin earth
virgin earth phillapa gregory a really great read it gave me an insight into charles 1 and the civil war that I had not expected and yet I found the knowledge and discription by... Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2010 by Mrs. S. Bretherick
Enjoyable
This was not her best I found it a little wordy but it was enjoyable
Published on 27 Feb 2009 by Bette Margaret Ezaz
Better than Earthly Joys, but still disappointing
Like its predecessor it drags on far too long in an attempt to be an epic, however the snatches of the book based in America are enthralling. Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2008 by Tiger Sue
One man, two countries, two wars, two families.....
John Tradescant the younger is the King's gardener in an England that is on the brink of civil war. To escape the troubles John travels to the colony of Jamestown in Virginia to... Read more
Published on 16 May 2007 by Eternal Dark
Good read
I read this book during a holiday and thoroughly enjoyed it. I am going to get the prequel. The history was well presented and the family life was a pleasure to read. Read more
Published on 23 Oct 2003
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