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The Lotus Quest
In Search of the Sacred Flower
8,49 € |
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Verlag: | Vintage Digital |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 31.08.2011 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781446484562 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 352 |
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Beschreibungen
The lotus is the world's most iconic flower. Galvanised by receiving seeds from a three-thousand-year-old lotus, which flowered without difficulty in an English summer, Mark Griffiths set out to track the path of this sublime plant to its home in the Lotus-Lands of Japan. The Lotus Quest unveils a stunning vision of Japan's feudal era, as Griffiths visits shrines, ruins, gardens and wild landscapes, and meets priests and archaeologists, philosophers and anthropologists, gardeners and botanists, poets and artists, and even dines on the lotus in a Tokyo caf . Beautifully illustrated, intensely atmospheric and full of suspense, The Lotus Quest shows how the deep crimson of the lotus runs like a tracer dye, tracking the spread, fusion and fission of the world's great civilizations.