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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 cafe. 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.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Travel & holiday Travel writing

• Full title: Lotus Quest
• Author: Mark Griffiths
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9781845951009
• ISBN: 184595100X
• ID: 04274340
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 256 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2010

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