The Lotus Quest: In Search of the Sacred Flower - Couverture souple

Griffiths, Mark

 
9781845951009: The Lotus Quest: In Search of the Sacred Flower
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 184595100X ISBN 13 : 9781845951009
Editeur : Vintage, 2010

Synopsis

The lotus is the world's most iconic flower. Galvanised by receiving seeds from a three-thousand-year-old lotus, which flowered without difficulty in an English summer, Mark Griffiths set out to track the path of this sublime plant to its home in the Lotus-Lands of Japan.

The Lotus Quest unveils a stunning vision of Japan's feudal era, as Griffiths visits shrines, ruins, gardens and wild landscapes, and meets priests and archaeologists, philosophers and anthropologists, gardeners and botanists, poets and artists, and even dines on the lotus in a Tokyo café.

Beautifully illustrated, intensely atmospheric and full of suspense, The Lotus Quest shows how the deep crimson of the lotus runs like a tracer dye, tracking the spread, fusion and fission of the world's great civilizations.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mark Griffiths is one of Britain's leading plant experts. He is editor of The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, the largest work on horticulture ever published, and the author or editor of numerous other books on gardening and botany. A Fellow of the Linnean Society, he has written regularly for The Times and now contributes to Country Life. He lives in Oxford.

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Éditeur
Vintage
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
184595100X
ISBN 13 
9781845951009
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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