Tulipomania
Subtitle: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused (Windsor Selection)
Edition: Largeprint edition
Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780754016526
Subjects: Netherlands; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Gardening: plants; Flowers - General; Gardening / Horticulture; 17th century; Economic conditions; History; Large type books; Tulip mania, 17th century; Tulips
First sentence: They came from all over Holland, dressed like crows in black from head to foot and journeying along frozen tracks rendered treacherous by the scars of a thousand hooves and narrow wheels.