Length1h 56m
About this audiobook
He thought he was planting a future. Instead, he buried everything he had.
Pieter van Haaren is a careful man, cloth merchant, devoted husband, steady hands in an uncertain world. But in the winter of 1636, Haarlem is no longer ruled by reason. It is ruled by flowers.
Tulip bulbs, once humble garden fare, now fetch fortunes. Houses are sold, dowries exchanged, reputations shattered, all for the promise of a plant that may never grow. Pieter resists. Until he doesn’t.
One bulb. One name. Amalia.
As the tulip market soars, so does Pieter’s ambition. What begins as a single speculative trade spirals into a fever dream of futures contracts, phantom profits, and paper fortunes. But spring is coming. And when the frost thaws, so do the illusions.
Based on the true events of the Dutch Tulip Bubble, Amalia is a haunting tale of beauty, greed, and the high price of chasing transformation.
Some flowers are worth losing a fortune for.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length1 hr 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 28, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter One: What Lies Beneath the Soil
3Chapter Two: The Weight of Modest Dreams
4Chapter Three: The First Taste
5Chapter Four: The Velocity of Desire
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6Chapter Five: The Congregation of Believers
7Chapter Six: The Paper Garden
8Chapter Seven: The Arithmetic of Dreams
9Chapter Eight: The Season of Reckoning
10Chapter Nine: The Weight of Paper
11Chapter Ten: The Garden of Graves
12Author’s Note
13Historical Side Effects Disclaimer, Tulip Edition
14Here are some other books in the Heinous History Series
15The Purple Shadow
16Corpse on Trial
17Her Name Was Lucrezia
18Groom of the Stool: Power, Privilege, and the Royal Chamber Pot
19Dance of the Damned: The Dancing Plague of 1518
20Ceruse Queen: The True Cost of Immortality
21Black Bart: Gentleman Pirate of the High Seas
22Dressed to Kill
23Legal Stuff
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