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Chasing the Rose: an Adventure in the Venetian Countryside Free FREE CHASING THE ROSE: AN ADVENTURE IN THE VENETIAN COUNTRYSIDE PDF Andrea Di Robilant | 213 pages | 06 May 2014 | Alfred A. Knopf | 9780307962928 | English | United States a book review by Richard Frisbie: Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. NOOK Book. Andrea di Robilant was born in Italy and educated at Columbia University, where he specialized in international affairs. He lives in Rome. In the beginning it was just a lovely scented pink rose that grew wild in the woods on land on the Venetian mainland that had once belonged to my family. This mysterious rose had attracted the curiosity of a few local residents, but no one could figure out what it was or where it came from. Q: Would you describe this rose and what makes it so charming and special among roses? A: It is a shrub with a lovely silvery pink rose, clearly an old Chinese rose, semi-double, very sturdy and exceptionally fragrant. Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside smells of raspberries and nectarines. I planted one in my garden. It blooms all year round very profusely and the flowers get prettier and fuller every year. It looks like an Old Blush but the blooms are more beautiful and much more scented. Q: The book reads as if a detective story, full of labyrinths, stops and starts, false leads, and occasional happy surprises. Did you feel like a detective? A: Well, more like a reporter. Which is what I have been all my life. Initially I thought of it as an interesting piece of news. But it was never a straight line. Mostly twists and turns that led me to interesting people, charming gardens, unexpected places. And every time I thought I had reached a dead end someone appeared on my path to get me going again. Q: What, if anything did you know about roses before you began this book? I certainly never thought of myself as a gardener. Poking around old roses I often felt like an impostor as I was often with people who knew a great deal about roses. I have Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside to love roses and now I know a little bit about them — what I learned in the course of a year. So not much at all, really. And when I am asked to talk to rosarians I still feel like an impostor! Q: It seems that most of the interesting roses come from China originally and then spread to the West through England and France. Is it a cultural or artistic thing or was it the climate, and is that even accurate to say? A: The arrival of Chinese roses in Europe in the eighteenth century caused a revolution in the world of roses. Chinese roses brought remontancy — repeat flowering — and colors never seen before, including red and yellow. So you can imagine the impact these roses had once they were crossed with European species and varieties. There was a big bang effect. A hybridization frenzy took over, especially in nineteenth century France, and the staid old world of roses exploded in many directions. Q: Although this started for you as a light-hearted quest, you learned a great deal from several of the rose-o-philes you met along the way. Can you talk about the discoveries you enjoyed or some of the fascinating people you met? A: I have to say that the biggest thrill was to spend time in the garden of Eleonora Garlant and her husband Valentino. It is a rustic rose garden of great beauty and sophistication. Eleonora is entirely self-taught and had never seen a rose garden or a formal garden before she started planting her roses around her vegetable plots. She has created such a perfect environment for roses that new varieties grow spontaneously in her garden: as many as five or six new roses come to life there every year. I was taken by the notion that her garden was a fountainhead of roses in a world of rapidly diminishing biodiversity. What is it that draws you to these subjects? Are you a romantic? I suppose I have a romantic sensibility within a classical frame of mind. Goethe is my man. Certainly the Goethe of Italian Journey. And I have always been a traveler. And a journalist. So: a Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside romantic on a quest. That sums it up. Home 1 Books 2. Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Explore Now. Buy As Gift. Overview From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affairhere is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside rose. This passing detail led to an invitation for an audience with a local rose doyenne, Eleonora Garlant. On the hunt for the identity of his anonymous yet quietly distinctive rose, Di Robilant finds himself captivated by roseophiles through time——from Lucia and her friend Josephine Bonaparte to the gifted Eleonora, whose garden of nearly fifteen hundred varieties of old roses is one of the most significant in Europe——and by the roses themselves, each of which has a tale to tell. What starts out as a lighthearted quest becomes a meaningful journey as di Robilant contemplates the enduring beauty of what is passed down to us in a rose, through both the generosity of nature and the cultivating hand of human beings, who for centuries have embraced and extended the life of this mysterious flower. About the Author Andrea di Robilant was born in Italy and educated at Columbia University, where he specialized in international affairs. Show More. Related Searches. Almost a year after Rose returns to Amara a threat greater than any she has Almost a year after Rose returns Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside Amara a threat greater than any she has ever faced looms on the horizon. Determined to forsake a prophecy predicting the end of the worlds, Rose embarks on a mission to uncover the View Product. Autumn in Venice. In the fall ofErnest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first Cactus Rose. 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What starts out as a lighthearted quest becomes a meaningful journey as di Robilant contemplates the enduring beauty of what is passed down to us in a rose, through both the generosity of nature and the cultivating hand of human beings, who for centuries have embraced and extended the life of this mysterious flower.
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