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The flower of empire: an Amazonian water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it created

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The fascinating story of the massive Amazonian water lily, the Victoria regia, from its discovery in the wilds of British Guiana in 1837 to its metamorphosis into a symbol of Victorian culture and of the British Empire itself.

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Oxford University Press
0199706042 / 9780199706044
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
11/03/2013
English
306 pages
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