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Mike Dash

Tulipomania

The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused

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A vivid narration of the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren, windswept steppes of central Asia to its place of honor in the lush imperial gardens of Constantinople, to its starring moment as the most coveted-and beautiful-commodity in Europe.In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The object of this unprecedented speculation was the tulip, a delicate and exotic Eastern import that had bewitched horticulturists, noblemen, and tavern owners… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-307-56082-7
  • EAN: 9780307560827
  • Produktnummer: 15737051
  • Verlag: Crown
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'244 KB

Über den Autor


MIKE DASH is a Cambridge-educated writer and magazine publisher and author of five books--Tulipomania, Batavia's Graveyard, Thug, Satan's Circus and The First Family. A professional historian before he became a writer, he has written articles for The Guardian, The Daily Mail, and The Fortean Times. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

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