Portada

THE LOTUS QUEST IBD

VINTAGE
04 / 2010
9781845951009
Inglés

Sinopsis

The lotus is the world?s most iconic flower. Galvanised by receiving seeds from a three-thousand-year-old lotus which flowered without difficulty in an English summer Mark Griffiths set out to track the path of this sublime plant to its home in the Lotus-Lands of Japan. The Lotus Quest unveils a stunning vision of Japan?s feudal era as Griffiths visits shrines ruins gardens and wild landscapes and meets priests and archaeologists philosophers and anthropologists gardeners and botanists poets and artists and even dines on the lotus in a Tokyo café. Beautifully illustrated intensely atmospheric and full of suspense The Lotus Quest shows how the deep crimson of the lotus runs like a tracer dye tracking the spread fusion and fission of the world?s great civilizations.