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A twentieth anniversary edition of the classic, featuring new material by the author. Anna Pavord's internationally bestselling sensation, The Tulip, is the story of a flower that has driven men mad. Greed, desire, anguish, and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip into a worldwide phenomenon. Today, the United States alone imports three thousand million tulip bulbs each year. No other flower has ever carried so much consequence; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behavior, mirrors economic booms and busts, plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution. Why did the tulip dominate so many lives through so many centuries in so many countries? Anna Pavord, a self-confessed tulipomaniac, spent six years looking for answers, roaming through Asia, India, and the Ottoman Empire to tell how a humble wildflower of the Asian steppes made its way to Turkey and from there took the whole of Western Europe by storm. Sumptuously illustrated from a wide range of sources, this irresistible volume has become a bible, a unique source book, a universal gift book, and a joy to all who possess it. This beautifully redesigned edition features a new Preface by the author, a completely revised listing of the best varieties of this incomparable flower to choose for your garden, and a reorganized listing of tulip species, to reflect the latest thinking by taxonomists.

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Beautifully updated ... There is perhaps no other flower quite as political and theatrical as the tulip, and it is thanks to Pavord that we can now call ourselves true tulipomaniacs * Gardens Illustrated * A passionate masterpiece * Mail on Sunday * Well-spun and densely detailed ... A chronicle rather than a gardening book * New York Times * Anna Pavord is the grande dame of that school of British nature writing that is about beautiful things, beautifully written * The Times * Stunning * New Yorker * Ravishing * House & Garden *

A passionate masterpiece * Mail on Sunday * Well-spun and densely detailed ... A chronicle rather than a gardening book * New York Times * Anna Pavord is the grande dame of that school of British nature writing that is about beautiful things, beautifully written * The Times * Stunning * New Yorker * Ravishing * House & Garden *

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Anna Pavord’s books include The Naming of Names, The Curious Gardener, and, her most recent work, Landskipping. Her column in the Independent appeared from its launch in 1986 to the last print edition in 2016. She writes and presents programs for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and served for ten years on the Gardens Panel of the National Trust, the last five as Chairman. For the past forty years she has lived in Dorset, England.

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