Chasing the Rose An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside

Name: Chasing the Rose An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside
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ISBN: 9780307962928

ISBN-10: 030796292X

ISBN-13: 9780307962928

Edition: 2014

Authors: Andrea Di Robilant

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The author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair now gives us a charming chronicle of his search for a fabled antique rose-a tale that takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, and looks into the future of this much beloved flower.In his 2008 biography of the great Italian lady Lucia Mocenigo (his great-great-great-great grandmother), Andrea di Robilant described a pink rose that grows wild on the family's former country estate. This led to an invitation for an audience with the humble but deeply knowledgeable doyenne of European roses, Sra. Eleonora Garlant. Could this unnamed rose possibly be the long-lost Rose Bichonne, a China rose that nineteenth-century growers cultivated but…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/6/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English