Nature's Colony: Empire, Nation and Environment in
the Singapore Botanic Gardens
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Timothy P Barnard
Barnard has produced in this book an authoritative history of Singapore's first World Heritage site, its Botanic Gardens. Although visitors appreciate the gardens as a restful retreat in the midst of a busy city, this book also details the institution's role as a place of scientific research and as a testing ground for planting tropical crops and the struggles both within and the pressures from without to define its role. 287 pages. Please see the scan of the contents page for further details. Weight: 0.7kg. Post free within Malaysia