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"Mike Dash's TULIPOMANIA...is a pocket-sized book in which the story grows bigger as it unfolds. Dash's main field of enquiry, also covered by Pavord, is the great Dutch tulip mania of 1633-7 when a people noted for being 'dour, drab, sternly moralistic and above all extraordinarily canny in matters of finance' abandoned themselves to a passion for mere flowers. The rarest, most sought-after bulbs changed hands for astronomical prices twice the price of a house for a single bulb. Ironically, the broken colours that seared their petals like flames were caused by a virus which weakened the bulbs and contributed to their rarity.Mike Dash is the author of 'Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused' with ISBN 9780783895147 and ISBN 0783895143.
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