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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.

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• Stav: new
• Typ produktu:Knihy > Cizojazyčná literatura > English literature > Nonfiction > History
• GTIN/EAN: 9780674272606