Sunflowers
256 pages
|Published: 13 Mar 2008
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ISBN: 9781585679911
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Abrams Press
Publication date: 13 March 2008
Description
A narrative history of the sunflower reveals its lesser-known role in a wide variety of events and cultures, from its use in Hopi tribal rituals and near-prevention of the Irish potato famine to its inspiration of Hitler's invasion of Russia and its covert involvement in the Cold War. 25,000 first printing.
