The flower of empire : the Amazon's largest water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it helped create /
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| Author / Creator: | Holway, Tatiana M. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, [2013] |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11302220 |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Victoria's floras
- Terra incognita
- Perils and wonders
- A floral sensation
- An international tempest
- Return to the wild
- Cultivating Kew Gardens
- His grace and his gardener
- The flowering of Chatsworth
- Golden square
- Evergreens
- Salvaging Kew Gardens
- Trading favors
- Trials and errors
- The great stove
- Reviving Kew Gardens.
- Return to El Dorado
- Paxton, inc
- First bloom
- Nature's engineer
- Empire under glass
- Epilogue: Victoria regia redux.