By Any Other Name A Cultural History of the Rose

'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.

ISBN:	9780861540525
Publisher:	Oneworld Publications
Imprint:	Oneworld
Published date:	07 Oct 2021
DEWEY:	635.93364409
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	304
Weight:	522g
Height:	162mm
Width:	241mm
Spine width:	38mm

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