Amy Stewart lives in northern California, where she and her husband own an antiquarian bookstore called Eureka Books. She writes books by typing very quickly and loudly on a jet black keyboard that has no letters printed on the keys, proving (to herself, because no one else particularly cares) that she is an excellent touch typist.
When she's not writing books, reading them, or shelving them, she might be painting. You can see examples of her paintings here and here.
You can also find her all over the country speaking to audiences at bookstores, botanical gardens, garden clubs, and college and museum lecture series. To find out if she's coming to your town, visit the Events page of her website.
Four of Amy's books have been New York Times bestsellers, and she has enjoyed contributing to the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Good Morning America, and CBS Sunday Morning.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) granted her a Creative Writing Fellowship, and she's the winner of the American Horticultural Society's Book Award.
We buy more flowers a year than we do Big Macs, spending $6.2 billion annually. We use them to mark our most important events, to express sentiments that might otherwise go unsaid. And we demand perfection. So it’s no surprise that there is a $40 billion global industry devoted to making flowers flawless.
Amy Stewart takes us inside the flower trade—from the hybridizers, who create new varieties in the laboratory, to the growers, who produce flowers by the millions (often in a factory-like setting), to the Dutch auctioneers, who set the bar (and the price), and ultimately to the neighborhood florists orchestrating the mind-boggling demands of Valentine’s and Mother’s Day. There’s the breeder intent on developing the first blue rose; an eccentric horticultural legend who created the world’s most popular lily; a grower of gerberas of every color imaginable; and the equivalent of a Tiffany diamond: the “ Forever Young” rose.
Stewart explores the relevance of flowers in our lives and in our history, and in the process she reveals all that has been gained—and lost—by tinkering with nature.
發表於2024-09-15
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看書名以為會是一本介紹自然界的花,但是講的是人類的鮮花貿易。但本來帝國就是一個人類社會纔有的啊,所以帝國的書名其實沒有錯啊。 本書在開頭其實是提齣瞭疑問的,花本來是植物的性器,但是在人類賦予瞭他們不同的含義,甚至違背瞭他們的天性不再讓他們産生花粉,香味,從而...
評分作者瞄準的範圍有些窄,鮮花不隻是鮮切花,還有種植的花草,隨著人們消費的升級,大傢對鮮花的需要逐漸多瞭起來,相比較中國人更喜歡種植鮮花,每年春季的梔子花,直到現在還開放的茉莉,百閤,還有鞦天散發著淡淡幽香的桂花賣得不錯。 梔子花是甜香,百閤是濃香,茉莉是清洌,...
評分有點意外。鮮花帝國,以為是寫充滿鮮花的世界,實際是寫整個鮮花貿易的全過程的——鮮花貿易構成的全産業鏈圖景,自成帝國。從育種,到種植,最後銷售,鮮花如今既然通過買賣來到我們身邊,當然也是一種普通的商品。隻是因為其對自然的象徵意義,或許還因為其不帶來任何實際性...
評分看書名以為會是一本介紹自然界的花,但是講的是人類的鮮花貿易。但本來帝國就是一個人類社會纔有的啊,所以帝國的書名其實沒有錯啊。 本書在開頭其實是提齣瞭疑問的,花本來是植物的性器,但是在人類賦予瞭他們不同的含義,甚至違背瞭他們的天性不再讓他們産生花粉,香味,從而...
評分第一章 育種 第一節 飛鳥、蜜蜂與駝毛刷 育種得齣的新品種可以申請植物專利 傳統育種方法:用駝毛刷雜交育種 第二節 塑造完美 轉基因育種 玫瑰具有比其他花卉更強的象徵意義。在希臘神話對阿多尼斯之死的描述中,第一朵玫瑰是從垂死之人的血液中萌生的。在另一個版本裏,他的愛人...
圖書標籤: 環境 鮮花 美學 社會心理學 植物 博物 Eng AlgonquinBooks
Flower Confidential 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載