Imperial Nature. Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science. 2008. illus. XII, 429 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. <Joseph Dalton Hooker (18171911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first - and most successful -British men of science to become a full-time professional. He was also, Jim Endersby argues, the perfect embod