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By Any Other Name - A Cultural History of the Rose (Hardcover)
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By Any Other Name - A Cultural History of the Rose (Hardcover)
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‘Fascinating...I’ll never look at a rose in quite the same way
again.’ Adrian Tinniswood The rose is bursting with
meaning. Over the centuries it has come to represent love and
sensuality, deceit, death and the mystical unknown. Today the
rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the globe, ever present at
life’s seminal moments. Grown in the Middle East two thousand
years ago for its pleasing scent and medicinal properties, it has
become one of the most adored flowers across cultures, no longer
selected by nature, but by us. The rose is well-versed at
enchanting human hearts. From Shakespeare’s sonnets to
Bulgaria’s Rose Valley to the thriving rose trade in Africa and
the Far East, via museums, high fashion, Victorian England and
Belle Epoque France, we meet an astonishing array of species and
hybrids of remarkably different provenance. This is the story of a
hardy, thorny flower and how, by beauty and charm, it came to
seduce the world.
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