The flower of empire : an Amazonian water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it created [E-Book] / Tatiana Holway.
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Personal Name(s): | Holway, Tatiana M. |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013
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Physical Description: |
xii, 306 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, ports. |
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englisch |
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9780195373899 9780199706044 |
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505 | 0 | |a Prologue: Victoria's floras -- Terra incognita -- Perils and wonders -- A floral sensation -- An international tempest -- Return to the wild -- Cultivating Kew Gardens -- His grace and his gardener -- The flowering of Chatsworth -- Golden square -- Evergreens -- Salvaging Kew Gardens -- Trading favors -- Trials and errors -- The great stove -- Reviving Kew Gardens. -- Return to El Dorado -- Paxton, inc -- First bloom -- Nature's engineer -- Empire under glass -- Epilogue: Victoria regia redux. | |
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