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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Autor principal: | Holway, Tatiana |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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