Waterlily - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Waterlily write by Ella Cara Deloria. This book was released on 2009-04-01. Waterlily available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family?s camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible fate that befalls the rest of the family. Luckily, the two women are adopted by a nearby Dakota community and are eventually integrated into their kinship circles. Ella Cara Deloria?s tale follows Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, through the intricate kinship practices that created unity among her people. Waterlily, published after Deloria?s death and generally viewed as the masterpiece of her career, offers a captivating glimpse into the daily life of the nineteenth-century Sioux. This new Bison Books edition features an introduction by Susan Gardner and an index.
The Flower of Empire
The Flower of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Flower of Empire write by Tatiana Holway. This book was released on 2013-03-01. The Flower of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
Water Lilies and Bory Latour-Marliac
Water Lilies and Bory Latour-Marliac - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water Lilies and Bory Latour-Marliac write by Caroline Holmes. This book was released on 2015. Water Lilies and Bory Latour-Marliac available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume meticulously records our enduring love affair with the most beautiful and exotic of plants, the water lily.
Katie and the Waterlily Pond
Katie and the Waterlily Pond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Katie and the Waterlily Pond write by James Mayhew. This book was released on 2011-07-12. Katie and the Waterlily Pond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can Katie capture the magic of the Monet masterpieces? There's an art competition at the gallery and Katie is desperate to win. All she has to do is paint a picture in the style of Claude Monet. Surely Katie can manage that ... can't she?
Monet: Water Lilies
Monet: Water Lilies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monet: Water Lilies write by Jean-Dominique Rey. This book was released on 2008-09-09. Monet: Water Lilies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Monet, the father of French impressionist painting, devoted twenty-five years to a series of paintings of the water lilies that floated in the pond of his lavish garden in Giverny. This volume is dedicated to those paintings, and opens with a biography of Monet that links the artist’s childhood passion for nature and for drawing to his later fascination with light. Monet’s experiments with how to best capture light and its effect on the sky and on water at different times of the day include paintings such as Impression, Sunrise (1872), which inspired the name of the impressionist movement. A critical text analyzes Monet’s ingenuity, audacity, and modernity, as well as his influence on other artists, from Zao Wou-ki to music to Shirley Goldfarb. This definitive catalog is completed by 210 color reproductions of the water lily paintings with annotated captions, period shots of Giverny by photographers such as Cartier-Bresson, and rare documents including Monet’s personal letters to his optometrist regarding his failing eyesight, which has been linked to his development of the impressionist style. The large-format volume features an eight-page gatefold of the murals at the Orangerie in Paris, and it serves as both an accessible introductory work and a complete reference guide to an important component in the history of art.
