BOOKS - The Tulip
US $9.91
109673
109673
The Tulip
Author: Anna Pavord
Year: January 15, 1999
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 7.5 MB
Year: January 15, 1999
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 7.5 MB
The Tulip is not a gardening book. It is the study of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip into the world-wide phenomenon it is today. No other flower has ever carried so much cultural baggage; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behaviour, mirrors economic booms and busts, plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution. Pavord tells how the tulip arrived from Turkey and took the whole of Western Europe by storm. Sumptuously illustrated from a wide range of sources, this volume should become a unique source book, a universal gift book and a joy to all who possess it.
