Stewart, A: Flower Confidential

The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

Omschrijving

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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Schrijver
Stewart, Amy
Titel
Stewart, A: Flower Confidential
Uitgever
Little Brown and Company
Jaar
2008
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
322
Gewicht
308 gr
EAN
9781565126039
Afmetingen
210 x 140 x 25 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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