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The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, The Quest to Make it Bloom, and the World it Created
The Flower of Empire An Amazonian Water Lily The Quest to Make it Bloom and the World it Created
Author: Tatiana Holway
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 disc...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195373899
ISBN-10: 0195373898
Publication Date: 4/1/2013
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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