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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.
| Mídia | Livros Hardcover Book (Livro com lombada e capa dura) |
| Lançado | 6 de maio de 2025 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674272606 |
| Editoras | Harvard University Press |
| Páginas | 400 |
| Dimensões | 166 × 241 × 39 mm · 690 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |