Author: Jim Endersby
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022637632X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Introduction: imagining orchids -- Censored origins -- The lesbian boy -- The uses of orchids -- Red book, black flower -- Utopian botany -- The signature of all things -- The name of the orchid -- Making a family -- A second Adam -- Artificial to natural -- Myths of orchids -- Orchidmania -- The blooming aristocracy -- Orchis bank -- Every trifling detail -- Beautiful contrivances -- The scramble for orchids -- Lost orchids -- Cannibal tales -- Savage orchids -- Long purples and a forked radish -- Queer flowers -- Creation and consolation -- Sexy orchids -- Boy's own orchids -- Manly orchids -- Frail orchids -- Deceptive orchids -- Orchids in orbit -- Endangered orchids -- Fragile specialists -- The spider orchids of Sussex -- Conclusion: an orchid's-eye view?
Orchid
Author: Jim Endersby
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022637632X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Introduction: imagining orchids -- Censored origins -- The lesbian boy -- The uses of orchids -- Red book, black flower -- Utopian botany -- The signature of all things -- The name of the orchid -- Making a family -- A second Adam -- Artificial to natural -- Myths of orchids -- Orchidmania -- The blooming aristocracy -- Orchis bank -- Every trifling detail -- Beautiful contrivances -- The scramble for orchids -- Lost orchids -- Cannibal tales -- Savage orchids -- Long purples and a forked radish -- Queer flowers -- Creation and consolation -- Sexy orchids -- Boy's own orchids -- Manly orchids -- Frail orchids -- Deceptive orchids -- Orchids in orbit -- Endangered orchids -- Fragile specialists -- The spider orchids of Sussex -- Conclusion: an orchid's-eye view?
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022637632X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Introduction: imagining orchids -- Censored origins -- The lesbian boy -- The uses of orchids -- Red book, black flower -- Utopian botany -- The signature of all things -- The name of the orchid -- Making a family -- A second Adam -- Artificial to natural -- Myths of orchids -- Orchidmania -- The blooming aristocracy -- Orchis bank -- Every trifling detail -- Beautiful contrivances -- The scramble for orchids -- Lost orchids -- Cannibal tales -- Savage orchids -- Long purples and a forked radish -- Queer flowers -- Creation and consolation -- Sexy orchids -- Boy's own orchids -- Manly orchids -- Frail orchids -- Deceptive orchids -- Orchids in orbit -- Endangered orchids -- Fragile specialists -- The spider orchids of Sussex -- Conclusion: an orchid's-eye view?
The Orchid Seekers
Author: Ashmore Russan
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
ISBN:
Category : Orchids
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
ISBN:
Category : Orchids
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Boy's Own Annual
Author:
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Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Gardeners' Chronicle
Author:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
The Bookman
Author:
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Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Gardeners' Chronicle of America
Author:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Descriptive Handbook to Juvenile Literature
Author: Finsbury, England. Public libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Special Issue on Drugs and Driving
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Drugged driving
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugged driving
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description