The Brief Life of Flowers
$34.35
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
8 April 2019
Summary
The Brief Life of Flowers: Unveiling Nature’s Hidden Stories
The beauty of flowers is well known, inspiring creative minds from Botticelli to Beatrix Potter. But they’ve also played a key part in forming the past, and may shape our future.
Roses and thistles have served as symbols of monarchs, dynasties and nations. We wear poppies to remember the First World War, but it was the elderflower that treated its wounded soldiers. A rose might mend a broken heart, and sunflowers m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473686373 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473686377 |
| Author: | Fiona Stafford |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 199g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 16mm |
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A glowing account of the myths and meanings we impose on flowers … a book to reread and treasure
A glowing account of the myths and meanings we impose on flowers … a book to reread and treasure - Sunday Times
About The Author
Fiona Stafford
Fiona Stafford is Professor of English at the University of Oxford. She specialises in literature of the Romantic period (especially Wordsworth, Austen, Burns, Keats, Clare), Scottish and Irish literature, contemporary poetry, environmental humanities and nature writing, literature and the visual arts. In addition to academic books and essays, she contributes to newspapers, literary magazines, art books and collections of nature writing. She is the author of The Long, Long Life of Trees, and Jane Austen: A Brief Life.
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