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Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew

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'Teltscher is a remarkable new historian . . . wholly original.' William Dalrymple Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew Gardens remains one of the most beautiful glass buildings in the world today. Seemingly weightless, vast and yet light, the Palm House floats free from architectural convention, at once monumental and ethereal. From a distance, the crowns of the palms within are silhouetted in the central dome; close to, banana leaves thrust themselves against the glass. To enter it is to enter a tropical fantasy. The body is assaulted by heat, light, and the smell of damp vegetation. In Palace of Palms , Kate Teltscher tells the extraordinary story of its creation and of the Victorians' obsession with the palms that filled it. It is a story of breathtaking ambition, of scientific discovery and, crucially, of the remarkable men whose vision it was. The Palm House was commissioned by the charismatic first Director of Kew,...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18327279
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan UK; Picador
Language:
English
ISBN 10:
1529004861
ISBN 13:
9781529004861
ISBN:
9781529004861, 1529004861

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