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The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, the Quest to Make it Bloom, and the World It Created

Despite the title's implication of a narrow focus, this history of the impact of the British Empire's horticultural ambitions will interest readers of biographies as well as students of industrialization, architecture, and, of course, botany, although they may be disappointed with the book's polite treatment of the imperial project at large.
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