{"product_id":"9781460702994","title":"Daffodil","description":"A beautifully illustrated, visually lush and intriguing book about the world's most popular and most powerful flower.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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' \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135304024304,"sku":"9781460702994","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781460702994_p0.jpg?v=1763672775","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781460702994","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}