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The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, The Quest to Make it Bloom, and the World it Created
Tatiana Holway
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| #1271029 in Books | imusti | 2013-04-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.50 x1.10 x9.40l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 328 pages | Oxford University Press USA||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Historical Sensation|By L. Gunther|Reading this causes one [me] to explore more literary and graphic sources. Well researched with author Holway giving treatment to individuals & inhstitutions with contributions made to the discoveries, explorations and cultivation of the giant water lily of British Guiana.|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.|.com |
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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 re...
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