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 |
ISBN: |
9780195373899 9780199706044 |
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- 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.