Description
Would you trade your house for a single flower? Of course not. But in Holland’s Golden Age of the early 1600s, some people did, A single tulip bulb could have the same value as the annual income of ten skilled artisans! Join Marilyn McPhie for a look at the history of these beautiful flowers – and what the Tulip Mania had to do with art, a botanical virus, the bubonic plague, outrageous stories, and the rules of international finance.
