The Orchid Seekers
Author: Ashmore Russan
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 390
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Author: Ashmore Russan
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 390
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Published: 1893
Total Pages: 430
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ashmore RUSSAN (and BOYLE (Frederick))
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Published: 1897
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ashmore Russan
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Published: 2015-02-15
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781298026538
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Author: Ashmore Russan
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-07-23
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780282511630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Orchid Seekers: A Story of Adventure in Borneo Some of our boy readers may cry, on seeing the names of two authors on the title-page, What! A couple of 'em And at any point they will be likely to ask themselves, Now, I wonder which of the two wrote this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Jim Endersby
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-11-07
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 022637632X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction: imagining orchids -- Censored origins -- The lesbian boy -- The uses of orchids -- Red book, black flower -- Utopian botany -- The signature of all things -- The name of the orchid -- Making a family -- A second Adam -- Artificial to natural -- Myths of orchids -- Orchidmania -- The blooming aristocracy -- Orchis bank -- Every trifling detail -- Beautiful contrivances -- The scramble for orchids -- Lost orchids -- Cannibal tales -- Savage orchids -- Long purples and a forked radish -- Queer flowers -- Creation and consolation -- Sexy orchids -- Boy's own orchids -- Manly orchids -- Frail orchids -- Deceptive orchids -- Orchids in orbit -- Endangered orchids -- Fragile specialists -- The spider orchids of Sussex -- Conclusion: an orchid's-eye view?