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The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad (Hardback)
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The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad (Hardback)

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Hardback 480 Pages
Published: 14/11/2019
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A revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling classic

Anna Pavord's now classic, internationally bestselling sensation, The Tulip, is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has driven men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip from a wild flower of the Asian steppes to the worldwide phenomenon it is today. No other flower carries so much baggage; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behaviour, mirrors economic booms and busts, plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution.

Why did the tulip dominate so many lives through so many centuries in so many countries? Anna Pavord, a self-confessed tulipomaniac, spent six years looking for answers, roaming through eastern Turkey and Central Asia to tell how a humble wild flower made its way along the Silk Road and eventually took the whole of Western Europe by storm.

Sumptuously illustrated from a wide range of sources, this irresistible volume has become a bible, a unique source book, a universal gift and a joy to all who possess it. This beautifully redesigned edition features a new Preface by the author, a revised listing of the best varieties of this incomparable flower to choose for your garden and a reorganised listing of tulip species to reflect the latest thinking by taxonomists.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781526602688
Number of pages: 480
Weight: 1630 g
Dimensions: 246 x 189 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

Beautifully updated … There is perhaps no other flower quite as political and theatrical as the tulip, and it is thanks to Pavord that we can now call ourselves true tulipomaniacs - Gardens Illustrated

A passionate masterpiece - Mail on Sunday

Well-spun and densely detailed … A chronicle rather than a gardening book - New York Times

Anna Pavord is the grande dame of that school of British nature writing that is about beautiful things, beautifully written - The Times

Stunning - New Yorker

Ravishing - House & Garden

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“Beautiful, just beautiful”

Tulips are my favourite flowers and I treated myself to this book with some book tokens. It's exquisitvely illustrated & the writing is lovely. I learnt some much about what I thought was just the humble... More

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