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.