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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

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