Flower Confidential Tapa blanda - 2008
de Amy Stewart
The flower business is a $40 billion global industry devoted to making flowers flawless. Stewart explores the relevance of flowers, and in the process she reveals all that has been gained--and lost--by tinkering with nature.
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Does it matter that a bouquet of roses travels halfway around the world before it arrives at your supermarket or florist? Or that growers force tulips to bloom in December? Are we being tricked when a scientist engineers a lily that doesn't shed pollen?
For over a century hybridizers, genetecists, farmers, and florists around the world have worked to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature could provide. Almost any flower, in any color, is for sale at any time of the year.
Amy Stewart travels the globe to take us inside this dazzling world. She tracks down scientists intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horticultural legend who created the world's most popular lily (the 'Star Gazer'); a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite, high-end organic roses that are the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. She sees firsthand how flowers are grown and harvested on farms in Latin America, California, and Holland. (It isn't always pretty).
What has been gained--and what has been lost--in tinkering with Mother Nature? Should we care that some roses have lost their scent? Or that most flowers are sprayed with pesticides? In a global marketplace, is there such a thing as a socially responsible flower? At every turn, Stewart discovers the startling intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce.
You'll never look at a cut flower the same again.
Detalles
- Título Flower Confidential
- Autor Amy Stewart
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición [ Edition: First
- Páginas 320
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill
- Fecha de publicación 2008-03-18
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781565126039 / 1565126033
- Peso 0.55 libras (0.25 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 pulgadas (20.83 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Cut flower industry - United States - History, Cut flower industry - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.175
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- New York Times Book Review, 03/30/2008, Page 28
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