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This book tells the remarkable stories of bonsai and penjing trees in the collection of the National Arboretum in Washington D.C. It details their valuable role in international diplomacy and as instruments of American presidential influence. It also describes their inclusion in world's fair exhibitions, in Asian-inspired gardens around the country, and as a window onto the extensive cultivation of bonsai in North America today. A lengthy firs...

Examines the hit BBC series Sherlock and the fan fiction it inspires. Using Sherlock to trace the changing face of fan fiction studies, Ann McClellan's book explores how far fans are willing to go to change the Sherlockian canon while still reinforcing its power and status as the source text.

This stunningly beautiful record of the nation's biggest springtime festival - the National Cherry Blossom Festival - is a breathtaking illustrated memory of the beauty and fragility of spring. Every year, millions of people from across the country gather in our nation's capital to revel in the beauty of the Cherry Blossoms. This book is a valuable keepsake for visitors of the festival for years to come. Capturing the true essence of spring, a...

From Tokyo to Washington, D.C., [cherry blossom] festivals celebrate the ethereal and glorious springtime blooming of the ancient cherry blossom tree and its role today as an instrument of diplomacy, landscape enhancement, and eternal sign of spring and romance. Highlights [in this book] include the story of the trees' cultivation and significance in Japan for more than 1000 years, how they came to the U.S. and their importance as representati...

This stunningly beautiful record of the nation's biggest springtime festival - the National Cherry Blossom Festival - is a breathtaking illustrated memory of the beauty and fragility of spring. Every year, millions of people from across the country gather in our nation's capital to revel in the beauty of the Cherry Blossoms. This book is a valuable keepsake for visitors of the festival for years to come. Capturing the true essence of spring, a...

Lavishly Illustrated, fact-filled and Now in a new, enhanced paperback edition, The Cherry Blossom Festival: Sakura Celebration commemorates 100 years of Washington D.C's Cherry Blossom Festival in a new enhanced paperback edition. Extensive illustrations complement intriguing stories of how the Japanese cherry blossom trees were planted around the tidal basin and of the development of the National Cherry Blossom Festival honoring the trees an...