Orchid - A Cultural History

Informationen zum Autor Jim Endersby is a reader in the history of science at the University of Sussex. He is the author of A Guinea Pig's History of Biology and Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science . Klappentext 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. Everything from the European conquest of the Americas to Charles Darwin s theory of evolution became intimately entangled with the story of the orchid. Whether it s in films, novels, plays, or poems, orchids feature everywhere from Shakespeare to science fiction, from hard-boiled thrillers to elaborate modernist novels. Orchid: A Cultural History tells, for the first time, the full story of our fascination with orchids. "

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jim Endersby, Senior Lecturer Jim (University of Susse Endersby, Endersby Jim
• Edition: University Of Chicago Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780226376325
• ISBN: 978-0-226-37632-5
• Pages: 288
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Nature, technique > Nature: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Biologie > Botanique; GARDENING / General, NATURE / Plants / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, Gardening: plants, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Botany & plant sciences, Gardening: plants and cultivation guides, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Botany and plant sciences