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Virgin Earth | 
 enlarge | Author: Philippa Gregory
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 113968
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 576
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0006511767
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780006511762
ASIN: 0006511767
Publication Date: February 7, 2000
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 Better than Earthly Joys, but still disappointing March 10, 2008
Tiger Sue (UK)
Like its predecessor it drags on far too long in an attempt to be an epic, however the snatches of the book based in America are enthralling.
I made the mistake of loving The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Constant Princess etc and am now reading Gregory's back catalogue and am getting disappointed each step I take..
Avoid!
 One man, two countries, two wars, two families..... May 16, 2007
Eternal Dark (england)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
John Tradescant the younger is the King's gardener in an England that is on the brink of civil war. To escape the troubles John travels to the colony of Jamestown in Virginia to search for new plant species but he finds that this Virgin Earth is not uninhabited and has troubles of its own.
The white settlers are helping themelves to the Native Indian's land at will, burning crops and trying to drive the indians out. So begins a bizarre series of events that sees John fall in love and enter into a marriage with a young Native girl called Suckahanna and begin to live as a native. John becomes fully absorbed in the native culture until war looms and John is forced to make a brutal choice between his Indian wife and tribe and his own people.
John returns to England to find that his family are caught in the midst of the war. It is impossible to remain neutral in such times and the divided loyalties are threatening to tear the family apart. Will John ever be able to decide where his loyalties truly lie? and when he does will it be too late to save those that he loves?
Virgin Earth - Stunning, stunning, stunning February 14, 2006
Pipster (UK)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
After reading the magnificent Earthly Joys I clammered to get my hands on this to see what became of the Tradescant family. I was not disappointed. Philippa Gregory certainly interprets history in a way that helps her weave a captivating story but there are no far fetched assumptions in this book. Her books are like the best history lesson you have ever attended, they catapult the reader to the 1600's as though it were the most natural thing in the world. John Tradescant Junior is an opposite in everyway to his father but carries some of the characteristics that we so admired about JT senior. His life twists and turns in such a way that you fight within yourself whilst working out which route he should take; and then supporting his choices. The detail in this book is magical, one minute you can smell the exotic plants of Virginia and the next you feel as though you are being ravaged by the Civil War.
An inspirational book - will make you search engine crackers for every drop of information that can be had about the Tradescant family.
Good read October 24, 2003
8 out of 15 found this review helpful
I read this book during a holiday and thoroughly enjoyed it. I am going to get the prequel. The history was well presented and the family life was a pleasure to read. I doubted the stuff covering the time John spent as an Indian, would he really have adapted so quickly and forgotten his own kith and kin so easily? But i enjoyed reading about their daily life, nonetheless.
Garden story continues September 26, 2000
39 out of 41 found this review helpful
I loved Earthly Joys and was eager to read the sequel. I wasn't disappointed! Virgin Earth is the story of John Tradescant the Younger's adventures in the New World. As he tries to survive in a harsh environment, he finds romance. Will he ever return to Tradescant's Ark where his brave wife Hester fights to save the family tradition? (This is also the story of the beginning of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.)This novel has it all, passion, history, tragedy, and a great villain.
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