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The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession Sarah Bilston
The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession
Sarah Bilston
Sarah Bilston unfolds the story of orchid mania, the nineteenth-century craze among European and North American collectors vying to own the world’s 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.
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Hardcover Book (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros) |
| Publicado | 6 de mayo de 2025 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674272606 |
| Editores | Harvard University Press |
| Páginas | 400 |
| Dimensiones | 166 × 241 × 39 mm · 684 g |
| Lengua | Inglés |