A fresh look at an iconic Dutch industry, which incorporates ethnography, Dutch popular culture, and a range of scholarship.

Gebhardt Andrew :

Andrew Gebhardt completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam. He also holds an MA in journalism and a MFA in creative writing. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the New York Times Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. He has published poetry, essays, and translations.

'William Blake saw the universe in a grain of sand; Andrew Gebhardt finds it in a tulip's bloom. Fluidly written, deeply researched, and full of surprising turns, this book is about so much more than flowers. Highly recommended.'-- Dr. Christopher Ryan, co-author of New York Times best seller Sex at Dawn

'Andrew Gebhardt approaches that mysterious, compelling beauty, the tulip - over which fortunes have been built and ruined, and every art of the gardener, poet and most especially the painter lavished - through a varied and revealing set of lenses: economics, cultural studies, horticultural practice, and the history of everything from global trading to aesthetics and auctions, and how flowers became so deeply tied to our most significant occasions. An eye-opening, expansive book.'-- Mark Doty, author of Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, and winner of the National Book Award, the T.S. Eliot Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

'Blossoming forth in all sorts of unexpected directions, Holland Flowering's petals open out to reflect and encompass an entire world, one well beyond mere flowers: our world.'-- Lawrence Weschler, winner of National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and director emeritus, New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU

'If you've ever bought Dutch tulip bulbs and wondered how these beautiful flowers were developed and sold worldwide, Holland Flowering will give you all the insight you could want into the Dutch flower industry, from the earliest times to the present.' -- Roger Marshall for Home Greenhouse Spring 2015 Vol 37 (2)

'[...] in Holland Flowering, Andrew Gebhardt offers a dazzling tour of Dutch flower culture, from the earliest days of horticulture to attempts to grow bulbs on the moon.' -- Readara