For £30 you can buy 10 bunches of miserable, monochrome tulips from
your local flower stall. Or you can have all the fantastic blooms you could
imagine—and some you could never have dreamt of. In The Tulip, Anna Pavord
tells the tale of tulipomania—the plants, the people and the obsession
that drove some people bankrupt and others crazy. The flowers coveted by kings
and worshipped by sultans are all here, gloriously illustrated by artists whose
paintings cost less than the bulbs. Published by Bloomsbury,
ISBN 0747542961.
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