{"type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "publish_date": "2015", "copyright_date": "2015", "publish_country": "nz", "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL1011031A"}], "oclc_numbers": ["938013869"], "dewey_decimal_class": ["745.92092"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Have flowers, will travel. From a baby Austin 35 in Christchurch, New Zealand, to chauffeured limousines in Manhattan where J Barry Ferguson designed floral installations for special events. David Rockefeller, Horst, Malcom Forbes and many others of the New York's glitterati were his clients. A combination of timing, good luck and hard work, plus chutzpa, allowed him to seize unique opportunities. And then, when New York was frozen over, JBF led botanical tours to extraordinary places\"--Back cover."}, "table_of_contents": [{"level": 0, "title": "Introduction", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Growing up in New Zealand", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Off to see the wizard", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Let's make a theatre", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Hello New York", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Home in Oyster Bay", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Flowers on Fifth", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Leading ladies", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Remarkable men", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Botanical journeys", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Favourite flowers", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Mahurangi.", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}], "subject_places": ["New Zealand"], "subjects": ["Florists", "Biography", "Flower arrangers"], "subject_people": ["J. Barry Ferguson"], "title": "Flowers are my passport", "by_statement": "J. Barry Ferguson", "publishers": ["J. Barry Ferguson"], "publish_places": ["Warkworth, New Zealand"], "isbn_13": ["9780473336769"], "isbn_10": ["0473336766"], "pagination": "242 pages", "number_of_pages": 242, "ocaid": "flowersaremypass0000ferg", "source_records": ["ia:flowersaremypass0000ferg", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-03-17", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_021.bib.mrc:129398670:2448"], "covers": [12693577], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL27703897W"}], "key": "/books/OL37789884M", "local_id": ["urn:bwbsku:P7-BQA-010"], "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-03-30T07:49:41.765846"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-11-08T03:49:26.562726"}}