Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() In the new world and the old, the established order is breaking down and every family has to find its own way of surviving. 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. But as gardener to Charles 1, 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 nurture them. ![]() Virgin Earth, Philippa Gregory’s free-standing sequel to Earthly Joys, is a tour-de-force of powerful politics, personal discovery and glorious gardening detail from one of our most acclaimed novelists. ![]()
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