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SB409.48 .E64 2016
SB409
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48
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E64
2016
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
022637632X
1842466291
9780226376325
9781842466292
9780226427034
Orchid :
[Book]
a cultural history /
Jim Endersby.
Richmond, Surrey :
Royal Botanic Gardens,
2016.
viii, 292 pages :
illustrations (some color) ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-283) and index.
Introduction: imagining orchids -- Censored origins -- The lesbian boy -- The uses of orchids -- Red book, black flower -- Utopian botany -- The signature of all things -- The name of the orchid -- Making a family -- A second Adam -- Artificial to natural -- Myths of orchids -- Orchidmania -- The blooming aristocracy -- Orchis bank -- Every trifling detail -- Beautiful contrivances -- The scramble for orchids -- Lost orchids -- Cannibal tales -- Savage orchids -- Long purples and a forked radish -- Queer flowers -- Creation and consolation -- Sexy orchids -- Boy's own orchids -- Manly orchids -- Frail orchids -- Deceptive orchids -- Orchids in orbit -- Endangered orchids -- Fragile specialists -- The spider orchids of Sussex -- Conclusion: an orchid's-eye view?
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Some flowers make us think of love or heaven, of political causes or drug cravings, while others are food, medicine, or decoration; almost every plant that humans have ever taken an interest in has acquired a rich web of associations. So it is not surprising that flowers as alluring as orchids are associated with a very specific set of images, ideas, and symbols. Yet the precise significances we attach to orchids may be, Jim Endersby argues, the weirdest ever to have become linked to a plant. By following orchids through history, Endersby discovers unexpected connections that lead us into myriad other histories.
Orchids-- History.
Orchids in literature.
Forschung
Kultivierung
Kultur
Orchideen
Orchids in literature.
Orchids.
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