Name: Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter: An Account of Canoe and Camp Life in Colombia While Collecting Orchids in the Northern Andes (en Inglés)
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Author: Millican, Albert
ISBN: 9781387365760

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Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter: An Account of Canoe and Camp Life in Colombia While Collecting Orchids in the Northern Andes (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Albert Millican

Editorial

Lulu.com

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

112

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm

Peso

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781387365760

Categorías

Reino unido
1837-1901 (época victoriana)
Biografía: aventureros y exploradores
Historia de europa

Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter: An Account of Canoe and Camp Life in Colombia While Collecting Orchids in the Northern Andes (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter: An Account of Canoe and Camp Life in Colombia While Collecting Orchids in the Northern Andes (en Inglés)"

Between 1887 and 1891, Albert Millican made five trips to the orchid-rich areas of South America, concentrating on the Northern Andes. It was a time of orchid mania when a rare specimen could fetch around $25,000 in today's money. Prospectors shipped millions of orchid bulbs to Europe knowing less than one percent would survive the journey. The reasons for this sudden interest in orchids have several overlapping explanations: the ascension of the modern greenhouse; Darwin's work on the coevolution of insects and orchids; and a broader Victorian fascination with curios collected from around the world. In Millican's book we get a first-hand look at what it took to locate, identify, and transplant these ephemeral beauties from the slopes of the Andes to a nation halfway across the globe.