The botanist's daughter / Kayte Nunn.
Material type: TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, c2019Description: 390 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781409190530 [paperback]Subject(s): 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 fictionSummary: "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 publisherItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Interest: Fiction | College Library General Interest | F N92b 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | 3UCBL000027923 |
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"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
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