Orchid muse: a history of obsession in fifteen flowers

Chapter 1. --

Lusty ladies of the Enlightenment --

Chapter 2. --

Orchids fit for a Chinese empress --

Chapter 3. --

Orchids in the Tenderloin --

Chapter 4. --

Frida Kahlo's orchid --

Chapter 5. --

Rafinesque's strange collections --

Chapter 6.

The

wind orchid --

Chapter 7.

The

science of freedom and Darwin's "Little Book on Orchids" --

Chapter 8. --

Itinerant orchids, enslaved people --

Chapter 9. --

Jane Loudon and her floriferous press --

Chapter 10. --

Orchids and steel --

Chapter 11.

The

flowers, fashion, and friendships of Empress Eugenie --

Chapter 12.

The

historian, the actor, and the healing of orchids --

Chapter 13. --

Orchid art and conservation.