The flower of empire : the Amazon's largest water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it helped create /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holway, Tatiana M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Temas:
1800-1899
Victoria amazonica.
Botanical gardens > England > History > 19th century.
Victoria d'Amazonie.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Botanical gardens.
England.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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