by Mark Griffiths · Chatto & Windus · tapa dura · ISBN 9780701181222
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«The Lotus Quest» is Mark Griffiths's travel and botany essay, published by Chatto & Windus in hardback (352 pages, in English).
Starting from three-thousand-year-old lotus seeds that bloomed in an English summer, Griffiths traces this sacred flower from Egypt and India to Japan. Among shrines, ruins and gardens, he evokes feudal-era Japan, the medicinal uses of the lotus and its influence on Western artists, with this flower as a thread through the great civilisations.
First edition, published in 2009, subtitled 'In Search of the Sacred Flower'. Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-325) and index.
For readers interested in cultural history, travel in Japan and botany, and also in the religious symbolism of flowers.
