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FLOWER CONFIDENTIAL.
by Stewart, Amy
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in illustrated wrappers.
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books,, 2007.. SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A look at the flower industry and how it has sought - for better or worse - for perfection. SIGNED on the title page Statistics, notes, bibliography. 306 pp.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Seller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 65077
- Title
- FLOWER CONFIDENTIAL.
- Author
- Stewart, Amy
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in illustrated wrappers.
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books,
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, NC:
- Date Published
- 2007.
- Keywords
- flower industry, arc, uncorrected proof,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening, landscaping, flowers;
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