Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful - Softcover

Stewart, Amy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565126033 ISBN 13: 9781565126039

Verlag: Algonquin Books, 2008

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Páginas: 322 Géneros: 12:WNP:Trees, wildflowers & plants Sinopsis: 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._,

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"Stewart's journey takes us down many such paths, all connected by her own curiosity and highly readable prose. The greatest value of Flower Confidential, however, is that it was written at all."
--the Washington Post

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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.

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• Verlag: Algonquin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1565126033
• ISBN 13: 9781565126039
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320