Daffodil : the biography of a flower / Helen O'Neill.
Material type: TextPublisher: Sydney, N.S.W. HarperCollinsPublishers Australia, 2016Description: 253 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780732299200
- 0732299209
- QK495.A484 O54 2016
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SB410.A486 J44 1991 Narcissus / | SB410.A486 K56 2013 Daffodil : the remarkable story of the world's most popular spring flower / | SB410.A486 K57 1909 Daffodils, narcissus, and how to grow them as hardy plants and for cut flowers, with a guide to the best varieties, | SB410.A486 O64 2016 Daffodil : the biography of a flower / | SB410.A486 S25 2017 A survey of the genus Narcissus / | SB410.A486 T47 1997 Historic pre-1940 daffodils : including species and wild hybrids / | SB410.A486 V26 2015 Daffodils in American gardens, 1733-1940 / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-239) and index.
A beautifully illustrated, visually lush and intriguing book about the world's most popular and most powerful flower. The daffodil is the beautiful first flower of spring, the inspiration of poets, a treasure-trove to scientists and a symbol of everything from unrequited love, rebirth, eternal life and misfortune. Over centuries, the daffodil has been so many things to so many people: it was called 'Narcissus' by the Greeks and prized by the Romans as guarantee of passage to the Underworld; it was used by medieval Arabs and ancient Chinese for its medicinal properties and it has inspired poets, lovers, artists and scientists down the ages. But in telling the story of the daffodil, what award-winning, best-selling writer Helen O'Neill is really telling is the story of humanity. It's a narrative of progress from superstition and myth, taking in politics, greed, religion, science, chance, redemption and love. But, appropriately enough for a flower that is now used on a worldwide basis to raise funds for cancer research, it is, above all, a story of hope. Moving, fascinating, eloquent, and also beautiful.