Nunn, Kayte,
The botanist's daughter / Kayte Nunn. - Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, c2019. - 390 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 24 cm.
"Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-saving flower . . . In Victorian England, headstrong adventuress Elizabeth takes up her late father's quest for a rare, miraculous plant. She faces a perilous sea voyage, unforeseen dangers and treachery that threatens her entire family. In present-day Australia, Anna finds a mysterious metal box containing a sketchbook of dazzling watercolours, a photograph inscribed 'Spring 1886' and a small bag of seeds. It sets her on a path far from her safe, carefully ordered life, and on a journey that will force her to face her own demons. In this spellbinding botanical odyssey of discovery, desire and deception, Kayte Nunn has so exquisitely researched nineteenth-century Cornwall and Chile you can almost smell the fragrance of the flowers, the touch of the flora on your fingertips . . ." --Provided by the publisher
Adult
Text in Enlglish
9781409190530 [paperback]
Botanists -- Fiction
Women botanists -- Fiction
Scientific expeditions -- Fiction
Flowers -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Cornwall (England : County) -- Fiction
Valparaíso (Chile) -- Fiction
Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
Historical fiction.
The botanist's daughter / Kayte Nunn. - Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, c2019. - 390 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 24 cm.
"Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-saving flower . . . In Victorian England, headstrong adventuress Elizabeth takes up her late father's quest for a rare, miraculous plant. She faces a perilous sea voyage, unforeseen dangers and treachery that threatens her entire family. In present-day Australia, Anna finds a mysterious metal box containing a sketchbook of dazzling watercolours, a photograph inscribed 'Spring 1886' and a small bag of seeds. It sets her on a path far from her safe, carefully ordered life, and on a journey that will force her to face her own demons. In this spellbinding botanical odyssey of discovery, desire and deception, Kayte Nunn has so exquisitely researched nineteenth-century Cornwall and Chile you can almost smell the fragrance of the flowers, the touch of the flora on your fingertips . . ." --Provided by the publisher
Adult
Text in Enlglish
9781409190530 [paperback]
Botanists -- Fiction
Women botanists -- Fiction
Scientific expeditions -- Fiction
Flowers -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Cornwall (England : County) -- Fiction
Valparaíso (Chile) -- Fiction
Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
Historical fiction.