Daffodil [Audiobook] download free by Helen O'Neill
- Listen audiobook: Daffodil
- Author: Helen O'Neill
- Release date: 2017/3/7
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780732299200
- Rating: 7.89 of 10
- Votes: 463
- Review by: Joselyn Grady
- Review rating: 8.16 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/4
- Duration: 3H3M38S in 256 kbps (48 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, AIFF, MPEG4, FLAC, WAV, MPEG-4 DST, MP3, Vorbis (compression TAR.LZO, CAB, RAR, AZW4, ZIP, TGZ, 7Z)
- Total pages original book: 240
- Includes a PDF summary of 19 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M55S (3.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A beautifully illustrated, visually lush and intriguing book about the world's most popular and most powerful flower. The daffodil is the beautiful first flower of spring, the inspiration of poets, a treasure-trove to scientists and a symbol of everything from unrequited love, rebirth, eternal life and misfortune. Over centuries, the daffodil has been so many things to so many people: it was called 'Narcissus' by the Greeks and prized by the Romans as guarantee of passage to the Underworld; it was used by medieval Arabs and ancient Chinese for its medicinal properties and it has inspired poets, lovers, artists and scientists down the ages. But in telling the story of the daffodil, what award-winning, best-selling writer Helen O'Neill is really telling is the story of humanity. It's a narrative of progress from superstition and myth, taking in politics, greed, religion, science, chance, redemption and love. But, appropriately enough for a flower that is now used on a worldwide basis to raise funds for cancer research, it is, above all, a story of hope. Moving, fascinating, eloquent, and also beautiful. 'O'Neill manages to make a biography of a flower feel like something of a detective novel, love story, historical drama and horticultural research paper rolled into one' Sydney Morning Herald
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Social & Cultural History, Biography: General, General & World History, Trees, Wildflowers & Plants
- Download servers: BitShare, 4Shared, FileServe, Torrent, Hotfile, DelaFil, Uploaded, FileNurse. Compressed in TAR.LZO, CAB, RAR, AZW4, ZIP, TGZ, 7Z
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 25.17 USD
- Dimensions: 160x218x25mm
- Weight: 678g
- Printed by: FOURTH ESTATE
- Published in: Pymble, NSW, Australia
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