
The flower of empire : an Amazonian water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it created
Tatiana M. Holway
Bok · Engelsk · 2013 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt | Oxford : Oxford University Press , cop. 2013
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Omfang | XII, 306 s., pl. : ill.
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Map of the Northern Atlantic World; Prologue: Victoria's Flora; 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 Stemming the Tide; 21 Hothouse of Industry. - 22 Empire under GlassEpilogue: Victoria Regia Redux; Notes; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. - In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding ""vegetable wonder""--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway
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ISBN | 9780195373899
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