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George Don (29 April 1798 – 25 February 1856) was a Scottish botanist and plant collector. Life and career George Don was born at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland on 29 April 1798 to Caroline Clementina Stuart and George Don (b.1756), principal gardener of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1802. Don was the elder brother of David Don, also a botanist. He became foreman of the gardens at Chelsea in 1816. In 1821, he was sent to Brazil, the West Indies and Sierra Leone to collect specimens for the Royal Horticultural Society. Most of his discoveries were published by Joseph Sabine, although Don published several new species from Sierra Leone. Don's main work was his four volume A General System of Gardening and Botany, published between 1832 and 1838 (often referred to as Gen. Hist., an abbreviation of the alternative title: A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants). He revised the first supplement to Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Plants, and provided a Linnean arrangement to Loudon's Hortus Britannicus. He also wrote a monograph on the genus Allium (1832) and a review of Combretum. He died at Kensington, London, on 25 February 1856. He is buried in the parish churchyard in the centre of Forfar. Legacy The plant species authored by George Don include: A plant genera authored by George Don is Physochlaina G.Don He is also honoured in the genus of a plant, Donella, which was published in Hist. Pl. Vol.11 o page 294 in 1891. The television gardener Monty Don is, according to different sources, either George Don's four-times great-grandson or a great-nephew some generations removed. List of selected publications See also List of Australian plant species authored by George Don References Bibliography . Discover the Don George popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Don George books.
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A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics
James M. RussellThis very readable brief guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be read for enjoyment or inspiration, including some books that come from beyond any religious tr...
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The Way of Wanderlust
Don GeorgeAs a professional travel writer and editor for the past 40 years, Don George has been paid to explore the world. Through the decades, his articles have been published in magazines,...
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The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu & Royall TylerThe first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature. Lady Murasaki's great 11th century novel is a beautifully crafted story of l...
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Carson the Magnificent
Bill ZehmeA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas HardyWith an essay by Robert Langbaum.'Here I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?'In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sell...
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The Nibelungenlied
A. HattoWritten by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuriesold leg...
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Blood in My Coffee
Ferdie Pacheco & Budd SchulbergBest known as the Fight Doctor, Ferdie Pacheco has lived a dreamer’s life. Instead of finding success in just one career, Pacheco has excelled in numerous fields. He’s been a succe...
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My Dad, Yogi
Dale Berra & Mark RibowskyA candid and nostalgic fatherson memoir by Dale Berra, providing a unique perspective on his legendary Hall of Fame dad, the inimitable and highly quotable Yogi Berra.Everyone know...
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Parzival
Wolfram Eschenbach & A. HattoComposed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the recreation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. It fo...
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English
Ben FogleWhat makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite – or is it something less easily defined?Beginning at the top of a m...
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Best. Movie. Year. Ever.
Brian RafteryFrom a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999“a terrifically fun snapshot of American film culture on the brink of the Mil...
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The Iliad
Homer, E. V. Rieu, D. C. H. Rieu & Peter Jones'The first great book, and the first great book about the suffering and loss of war' GuardianOne of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story o...
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The New Spaniards
John HooperA fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continu...
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Becoming a Gardener
Catie MarronA beautifully designed, fullcolor personal account of what it means to become a gardener, filled with specially commissioned color photography, watercolors, and fine art.To make he...
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Crossfire Hurricane
Josh CampbellCROSSFIRE HURRICANE DELIVERS THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF HOW WE GOT FROM 2016 TO TODAY, tracing the events that lead this country to a historic impeachment and beyond. “A mustr...
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Daniel Deronda
George Eliot & Terence CaveAs Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulettetable, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the ...
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
AeschylusAeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheu...
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Tasha
Brian MortonA Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the YearIn the spirit of Fierce Attachments and The End of Your Life Book Club, acclaimed novelist Brian Morton delivers a “superb” (Maure...
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The Lost Sons of Omaha
Joe SextonA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023“A meticulously researched and briskly written account that deftly weaves the influences of racial injustice, economic disparity, incendiary social me...
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Russian Thinkers
Isaiah Berlin & Henry HardyFew, if any, Englishlanguage critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that R...
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If I Die Before I Wake
Sherwood KingLaurence is a young exsailor who can't resist the lure of the good life, and when he finds a job as chauffeur to the wealthy Mr and Mrs Bannister, his occasional work leaves him fr...
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A Franchise on the Rise
Dom Amore & John Sterling2018 marks 115 years since the inception of the New York Yankeesand what a 115year period it's been! But how did the team that has since won a leagueleading 27 world championships ...
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Little Dorrit
Charles DickensThe Penguin English Library Edition of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking fo...
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Proof of Collusion
Seth AbramsonFor the first time, the full, explosive record of the unthinkable: how a US president compromised American foreign policy in exchange for the promise of future business and covert ...
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The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book
Jerry SeinfeldA celebration of and behindthescenes look at Jerry Seinfeld’s groundbreaking streaming series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.In his streaming show, Comedians in Cars Getting Coff...
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Great Expectations
Charles DickensNo other novel in the English language so epitomizes upward mobility, the rise from poverty to wealth, as Great Expectations. Often considered to be one of Dickens's best novels, i...
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Am-Pm Callanetics
Callan PinckneyFeaturing two 20minute daily workouts designed to strengthen and reshape the whole body, this programme aims to fit easily into the reader's daily schedule, providing an energi...
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George H. Dawson v. Don Hartwick Dba Log
9857 Supreme Court of Idaho Nos. 9856The cases of George H. Dawson v. Don Hartwick dba Log Tavern, and Guaranty National Insurance Company; and George H. Dawson v. Anthony E. Britt dba the Royal Lounge, and Transameri...
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Macbeth
William Shakespeare'A supreme theatrical poem that has a language that eats into the soul' Michael Billington, GuardianShakeapeare's bloodsoaked drama of murder, madness and the uncanny begins as Mac...
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
John BunyanComposed and published while John Bunyan (16281688) was in prison for his religious principles, Grace Abounding is an extraordinary spiritual autobiography. It was written in an ag...