The Flower Of Empire
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The Flower Of Empire
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Author : Tatiana Holway
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-01
The Flower Of Empire written by Tatiana Holway and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with History categories.
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 regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
The Flower Of Empire
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Author : Tatiana Holway
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-01
The Flower Of Empire written by Tatiana Holway and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with History categories.
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 regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
Empires Of Foliage And Flower
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Author : Gene Wolfe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987-01-01
Empires Of Foliage And Flower written by Gene Wolfe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Fantasy fiction categories.
William Of Malmesbury S Chronicle Of The Kings Of England
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Author : William (of Malmesbury)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
William Of Malmesbury S Chronicle Of The Kings Of England written by William (of Malmesbury) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Great Britain categories.
Plants And Empire
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Author : Londa Schiebinger
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Plants And Empire written by Londa Schiebinger and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Nature categories.
Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World, and uncover the botanical secrets of its people. Bioprospectors brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples for their king and country. Risking their lives to discover exotic plants, these daredevil explorers joined with their sponsors to create a global culture of botany. But some secrets were unearthed only to be lost again. In this moving account of the abuses of indigenous Caribbean people and African slaves, Schiebinger describes how slave women brewed the "peacock flower" into an abortifacient, to ensure that they would bear no children into oppression. Yet, impeded by trade winds of prevailing opinion, knowledge of West Indian abortifacients never flowed into Europe. A rich history of discovery and loss, Plants and Empire explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.
The Flowers Of Adonis
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Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Flowers Of Adonis written by Rosemary Sutcliff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Athens (Greece) categories.
Rosemary Sutcliff has chosen one of the most enigmatic figures in Greek history- Alcibiades, portraying him in different lights through the shifting focus of those around him. Alcibiades' relationship with Athens is seen very much as a love affair, but a stormy one. There are grimmer overtones too, as a whole generation of young men who were the flower of Greece go to their death at Syracuse and Goat's creek. Miss Sutcliff writes;"I have followed the historical accounts as closely as in me lies... But being a historical novelist rather than a historian I have felt free to 'fill in the gaps' and tidy up a little here and there".
The Flower Of Destiny
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Author : Margaret Mordecai
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-02
The Flower Of Destiny written by Margaret Mordecai and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02 with categories.
Excerpt from The Flower of Destiny: Old Days of the Serail N the first years of the seventh century, the power and glory of the world were divided between the empires of Rome and Persia. Their frontiers met in a long line till they were separated, as by a wedge, by the barren land of Arabia, which neither Emperor had thought it worth his while to con quer, but in which already burned that spark which was soon to set the world on fire and to consume both their empires. At this moment the Romans, though unfortunate in war, rejoiced to own the sway of the one sovereign of the Eastern line who was both great and good, Heraclius. In Persia the time was most fortunate, for after the revolution and civil war which had tom the Empire asunder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Empire Of The Summer Moon
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Author : S.C. Gwynne
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-07-07
Empire Of The Summer Moon written by S.C. Gwynne and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-07 with History categories.
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second is the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a nine-year-old girl who was kidnapped by Comanches in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the "White Squaw" who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend. S. C. Gwynne's account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told.
The Roots Of The Flower City
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Author : Camden Burd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
The Roots Of The Flower City written by Camden Burd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.
"This book explores the economic and ecological significance of plant nurserymen over the course of the nineteenth century. Situated at the center of the transcontinental plant trade, the nurserymen of Rochester, New York, served as central actors for the larger American imperial project"--
Empire And Religion In The Roman World
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Author : Harriet I. Flower
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-06
Empire And Religion In The Roman World written by Harriet I. Flower and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-06 with History categories.
The inspiration for this volume comes from the work of its dedicatee, Brent D. Shaw, who is one of the most original and wide-ranging historians of the ancient world of the last half-century and continues to open up exciting new fields for exploration. Each of the distinguished contributors has produced a cutting-edge exploration of a topic in the history and culture of the Roman Empire dealing with a subject on which Professor Shaw has contributed valuable work. Three major themes extend across the volume as a whole. First, the ways in which the Roman world represented an intricate web of connections even while many people's lives remained fragmented and local. Second, the ways in which the peculiar Roman space promoted religious competition in a sophisticated marketplace for practices and beliefs, with Christianity being a major benefactor. Finally, the varying forms of violence which were endemic within and between communities.