Flower Confidential
1st Edition
Hardback (09 Feb 2007)
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Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought-for better or worse-to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature can provide. There's a scientist intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horitcultural legend who created the most popular lily; a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite roses, the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. And, at every turn she discovers the startling intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781565124387 |
Publisher: | Algonquin Books |
Imprint: | Algonquin Books |
Pub date: | 09 Feb 2007 |
Edition: | 1st Edition |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 306 |
Weight: | 513g |
Height: | 222mm |
Width: | 149mm |
Spine width: | 29mm |