Nicholas J. Saunders

Poppy

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In the aftermath of the horrific trench warfare of the First World War, the poppy - sprouting across the killing fields of France and Belgium, then immortalised in John McCrae's moving poem - became a worldwide icon. Yet the poppy has a longer history, as the tell-tale sign of human cultivation of the land, of the ravages of war and of the desire to escape the earthly realm through inspired Romantic opium dreams or the grim reality of morphine drips. This is a story spanning three thousand years, from the ancient Egyptian fights over prized medicinal potions to the addicted veterans returning home from the American Civil War, from the British… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78074-185-7
EAN: 9781780741857
Produktnummer: 17008342
Verlag: Oneworld Publications
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor

Nicholas J. Saunders is the world's leading authority on the anthropology and archaeology of the First World War. His exhibition of trench art was for five years a centrepiece of the 'In Flanders Fields Museum'