The Flower of Empire
The Amazon's Largest Water Lily, the Quest to Make it Bloom, and the World it Helped Create
(Sprache: Englisch)
The fascinating story of the massive Amazonian water lily, the Victoria regia, from its discovery in the wilds of British Guiana in 1837 to its metamorphosis into a symbol of Victorian culture and of the British Empire itself
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The fascinating story of the massive Amazonian water lily, the Victoria regia, from its discovery in the wilds of British Guiana in 1837 to its metamorphosis into a symbol of Victorian culture and of the British Empire itself
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Flower of Empire “
Prologue: Victoria's Floras; 1. Terra Incognita; 2. Perils and Wonders; 3. A Floral Sensation; 4. An International Tempest; 5. Return to the Wild; 6. Cultivating Kew Gardens; 7. His Grace and His Gardener; 8. The Flowering of Chatsworth; 9. Golden Square; 10. Evergreens; 11. Salvaging Kew Gardens; 12. Trading Favors; 13. Trials and Errors; 14. The Great Stove; 15. Reviving Kew Gardens; 16. Return to El Dorado; 17. Paxton, Inc.; 18. First Bloom; 19. Nature's Engineer; 20. Empire under Glass; Epilogue: Victoria Regia Redux; Notes; Bibliography
Autoren-Porträt von Tatiana Holway
Tatiana Holway
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tatiana Holway
- 328 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 16,4 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
- ISBN-10: 0195373898
- ISBN-13: 9780195373899
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.05.2013
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Englisch
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Holway fills her book with a feast of Victoriana and the enthusiasm of a specialist Peter Lewis, Daily Mail [A] splendid story what's most fascinating about this tale is the way Holway twists and turns it through other botanical developments New York Times Tatiana Holway's wonderful book about the Victoria regia is fascinating, impeccably written, and elegantly designed. Until I read it I had been most fascinated by the Chinese handkerchief tree, Davidia involucrate, but Holway's book has led me reconsider. Simon Winchester "A fresh and often witty account in which the author quotes freely from correspondence and periodicals to create a lively portrait of Victorian England and of the widespread passion for flowers and gardening at that time." Kirkus Review
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