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The Flower of Empire : an Amazonian Water Lily, The Quest to Make it Bloom, and the World it Created.
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 horticu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (339 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199706044 0199706042 1299156355 9781299156357 0195373898 9780195373899 |