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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...
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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. | |
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