For Love Of A Rose: Story Of The Creation Of The Famous Peace Rose
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of one of history's most turbulent centuries blooms a flower that would become the world's most beloved rose — a story as dramatic and improbable as any work of fiction. For Love of a Rose chronicles the remarkable true story of Francis Meilland, a young French horticulturalist who, against the devastating backdrop of World War II, cultivated the rose that would come to be known as the Peace Rose — a golden-yellow bloom with crimson-edged petals that captured the imagination of an entire world longing for hope. Antonia Ridge recounts how Meilland raced to smuggle cuttings of his prized hybrid to growers across Europe and America just before the Nazi occupation of France sealed the borders, trusting the survival of his life's work to strangers and the mercy of fate. Ridge brings the story to life with the warmth and narrative grace of a seasoned storyteller, weaving together the personal and the historical to illustrate how a single flower became a universal symbol of peace, formally named at the very moment of Germany's surrender in 1945. The book stands as a testament to human perseverance, passion, and the quiet power of beauty to transcend even the most brutal of conflicts. A biography of both a man and a rose, it leaves the reader wondering — what other miracles of dedication and devotion are quietly waiting to bloom?
Author: Antonia Ridge
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of one of history's most turbulent centuries blooms a flower that would become the world's most beloved rose — a story as dramatic and improbable as any work of fiction. For Love of a Rose chronicles the remarkable true story of Francis Meilland, a young French horticulturalist who, against the devastating backdrop of World War II, cultivated the rose that would come to be known as the Peace Rose — a golden-yellow bloom with crimson-edged petals that captured the imagination of an entire world longing for hope. Antonia Ridge recounts how Meilland raced to smuggle cuttings of his prized hybrid to growers across Europe and America just before the Nazi occupation of France sealed the borders, trusting the survival of his life's work to strangers and the mercy of fate. Ridge brings the story to life with the warmth and narrative grace of a seasoned storyteller, weaving together the personal and the historical to illustrate how a single flower became a universal symbol of peace, formally named at the very moment of Germany's surrender in 1945. The book stands as a testament to human perseverance, passion, and the quiet power of beauty to transcend even the most brutal of conflicts. A biography of both a man and a rose, it leaves the reader wondering — what other miracles of dedication and devotion are quietly waiting to bloom?