The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession

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The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession

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The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession

The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession

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Sarah Bilston unfolds the story of orchid mania the nineteenth-century craze among European and North American collectors vying to own the worlds most coveted flowers. Focusing the hunt for the so-called lost orchid an especially vaunted flower native to Brazil Bilston reveals the enormous human and environmental cost of a colonial obsession.
  • Brand: Harvard University Press
  • Category: History
  • Format: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Publication Date: 2024-11-18
  • Publisher / Label: Harvard University Press
  • Author: Sarah Bilston
  • Number of Pages: 400
  • Fruugo ID: 431395375-906083908
  • ISBN: 9780674272606

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