A little potted history

... Tradescant, father and son, but of Captain Bli? of the Bounty whose horticultural achievements included transplanting the bread fruit tree from the Pacific to the West Indies, and ‘Eushed atthe 14th-century door of the vestry, I was 50 minutes overdue for ...

Published: Sunday 09 March 1997
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 298 | Page: 68 | Tags: none

WITH lAN BAIRD

... 000 MARITIME SALE A 1792 first edition of William Bligh's 'A Voyage to the South Sea for the purpose of conveying the Bread- Fruit tree to the West Indies in his Majesty's Ship the Bounty' has sold for 16,000. Other travel books at Christie's South Kensington ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1998
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 395 | Page: 26 | Tags: none