The passion for the lily

The book "The Passion for the Lily" is the biography of the flower that the world was passionate about, authored by Mike Dash. This is one of many books by Mike Dash in social history, and it is considered one of his most important books published over the past years. Dash wrote it with intelligence, patience, research, and follow-up. It traces the flower of the lily from its first discovery in the Tian Shan mountains in Asia over fifteen hundred years ago, through its status and development in the Ottoman Empire, and then its arrival in 1562 in the Netherlands. A book that narrates the story of the lily, and the journey of the flower from deserts, mountains, and wilderness to the palaces of Ottoman sultans, and their celebration of it.