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BY ANY OTHER NAME: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE ROSE is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination.‘Fascinating... I’ll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.’ Adrian TinniswoodThe 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. 304 pages Hardcover
A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination.‘Fascinating... I’ll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.’ Adrian TinniswoodThe 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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