Tales of the Rose Tree: Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels Around the World - Hardcover

Brown, Jane

 
9781567923124: Tales of the Rose Tree: Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels Around the World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1567923127 ISBN 13: 9781567923124
Verlag: David R. Godine, Publisher, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

The history of rhododendrons is full of swashbuckling plant collectors and visionary gardeners, colonial violence and ecological destruction, stunning botanical successes and bitter business disappointments. And it is here related with consummate skill by Jane Brown, an English garden writer clearly besotted by these “glorious and scented strangers, with their mouth-watering candy colors, their cascades of way bells or iridescent globes proffered in ruffs of green leaves.”

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jane Brown is the author of The Modern Garden and The Pursuit of Paradise: A Social History of Gardens & Gardening. She lives in Cambridgeshire, England.

Aus dem Klappentext

From its origins fifty million years ago to its arrival in England in the early 1600s; from its export from America by John Bartram in the 1760s to its vigorous collection by Harvard's Arnold Arboretum in the 1870s; from the foundation of the British Rhododendron Society in 1915 to the genetically engineered hybridizations of the early 21st century: this is the sweeping and exciting botanical epic that Jane Brown provides in this remarkable book. She achieves exactly what she sets out to do - 'to construct a history of the genus Rhododendron that pays tribute to the mystery and majesty of these plants' - and does so with a scholar's thoroughness and the anecdotal skill of an enthralling entertainer.

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Verlag
David R. Godine, Publisher
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1567923127
ISBN 13 
9781567923124
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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