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The Rose

Af: Jennifer Potter Engelsk Hardback

The Rose

Af: Jennifer Potter Engelsk Hardback
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This vividly written and lavishly illustrated book challenges many cherished beliefs about the rose. It looks set to establish itself as the definitive history of the Queen of Flowers.

Ever since Sappho planted roses at the shrine of Aphrodite, no flower has captured the imagination in quite the same way. Wherever it has grown, human beings have projected on to it their dreams and aspirations. Celebrated as a sacred symbol and as a token of womanhood, the rose unites Venus with the Virgin Mary, the blood of Christ with the sweat of Muhammad, the sacred and the profane, life and death, the white rose of chastity and the red rose of consummation.

In The Rose, the acclaimed horticultural historian Jennifer Potter shows what, exactly, gives this most fragrant flower its potency in societies around the world. Beginning her story in the Greek and Roman empires, she travels across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas to unravel its evolution from a simple briar of the northern hemisphere to the height of cultivated perfection found in rose gardens today. Whether laying bare the flower''s long association with sexuality and secret societies, questioning the Crusaders'' role in bringing roses back from the Holy Land, or hunting for its elusive blooms in the gardens of the Empress Josephine at Malmaison, Jennifer Potter reveals why this flower, above all others, has provoked such fascination.

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This vividly written and lavishly illustrated book challenges many cherished beliefs about the rose. It looks set to establish itself as the definitive history of the Queen of Flowers.

Ever since Sappho planted roses at the shrine of Aphrodite, no flower has captured the imagination in quite the same way. Wherever it has grown, human beings have projected on to it their dreams and aspirations. Celebrated as a sacred symbol and as a token of womanhood, the rose unites Venus with the Virgin Mary, the blood of Christ with the sweat of Muhammad, the sacred and the profane, life and death, the white rose of chastity and the red rose of consummation.

In The Rose, the acclaimed horticultural historian Jennifer Potter shows what, exactly, gives this most fragrant flower its potency in societies around the world. Beginning her story in the Greek and Roman empires, she travels across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas to unravel its evolution from a simple briar of the northern hemisphere to the height of cultivated perfection found in rose gardens today. Whether laying bare the flower''s long association with sexuality and secret societies, questioning the Crusaders'' role in bringing roses back from the Holy Land, or hunting for its elusive blooms in the gardens of the Empress Josephine at Malmaison, Jennifer Potter reveals why this flower, above all others, has provoked such fascination.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 544
ISBN-13: 9781848878341
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1848878346
Kategori: Træer, vilde blomster og planter
Udg. Dato: 1 nov 2010
Længde: 41mm
Bredde: 183mm
Højde: 241mm
Forlag: Atlantic Books
Oplagsdato: 1 nov 2010
Forfatter(e): Jennifer Potter
Forfatter(e) Jennifer Potter

Kategori Træer, vilde blomster og planter

ISBN-13 9781848878341

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 544

Udgave

Længde 41mm

Bredde 183mm

Højde 241mm

Udg. Dato 1 nov 2010

Oplagsdato 1 nov 2010

Forlag Atlantic Books