The Lost Orchid. A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession, Hardback - Sarah Bilston

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Sarah Bilston unfolds the story of orchid mania, the nineteenth-century craze among European and North American collectors vying to own the world’s most coveted flowers. Focusing the hunt for the so-called lost orchid, an especially vaunted flower native to Brazil, Bilston reveals the enormous human and environmental cost of a colonial obsession.Publisher: Harvard University PressAuthor(s): Sarah BilstonIllustration(s): 23 photos, 13 color photosNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2025Dimensions: 241 x 166 x 39Cover type: Hardback

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180.99 ^RON

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Brand: Harvard University Press