Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed

Nuala C. Johnson is Reader in Human Geography at the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast. Her previous books include 'Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance' (2003) and, as co-editor, 'Companion to Cultural Geography' (2004) and 'Culture and Society' (2008).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements1: Nature, Botanical Gardens and Science2: Foundations3: Displaying and Displacing Nature: Order, Classification and Pleasure4: Glass, Iron and Steam: Botanical Buildings and the Cultivation of the Exotic5: Networks and Exchanges: Knowledge Transfer and Peopling Botanical Institutions6: Popular Science, Public Pleasure and the Botanical Garden as a Site of Education and Entertainment7: ConclusionNotesBibliography Index

'Nuala Johnson's masterful ethnography of three sites where the canons of science and aesthetics are refracted and blurred demonstrates why a geographical imagination matters. This is comparative history at its best.' - James S. Duncan, University of Cambridge