“It was from here that he organised ‘herbarising’ trips for apprentices from the Society of Apothecaries. The most ambitious and eventful was a trip to Kent in July 1629, eventually published as Descriptio itineris plantarum… in agrum cantianum. It was a rumbustious and far from sober adventure, and Johnson’s account is a good candidate for the pioneer text of ‘edgelands’ nature-writing.”