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Tulipomania: the story of the world's most coveted flower and the extraordinary passions it aroused

✍ Scribed by Mike Dash

Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 234 KB
Category: Fiction
City: New York, Netherlands, Netherlands.
ISBN: 0307560821

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✦ Synopsis

In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from every walk of life were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The object of this unprecedented speculation was the tulip, a delicate and exotic Eastern import that had bewitched horticulturists, noblemen, and tavern owners alike.

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Netherlands

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