Margaret Mee In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests: Diaries of an English Artist Reveal the Beauty of the Vanishing Rainforest - Hardcover
Color Botanical Paintings, B & W Photos, Line Drawings, Maps, Diaries Of An English Artist Reveal The Beauty Of The Vanishing Rainforests
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- PublisherIntl Specialized Book Services
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 1869901088
- ISBN 13 9781869901080
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages302
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In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forest
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 302pp. Olive green silk binding with gilt lettering on the spine and upper board. Margaret Mee was a botanical artist specializing in plants from the Brazilian Amazon, and one of the first environmentalists to voice concern about the destruction of the rainforest. The book covers the 15 expeditions she made in the Amazon and the Diaries are lavishly illustrated with her paintings, sketches together with many colour and b/w photographs.Please note that mailing overseas will incur extra postage. Seller Inventory # ABE-1667401798365
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MARGARET MEE In Search of the Flowers of the Amazon Forests
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Margaret Mee (illustrator). 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Here, published for the first time, Margaret Mee's diaries and sketchbooks outline the brilliant career of an outstanding and modest botanical artist, who portrayed the great forests as they have never been viewed before. Stunning sketches and artwork mean this book will be much sought after for the plates alone. Margaret Mee was a petite English lady and botanical artist who produced hundreds of botanical paintings as a result of her exploration of the flora of Brazil, along the River Amazon and in the Amazon rainforest. She follows in the traditions of the great lady botanical artist explorers! In 1952, age 42 she left England to go and live in the Amazon. Age 47 she started to explore the Amazon where she studied and painted the plants and flowers of the Amazon rainforest for the next 30 years. She also found and recorded new plants which are now named after her. Ref ZZZ 3. Seller Inventory # 027559
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Margaret Mee In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests: Diaries of an English Artist Reveal the Beauty of the Vanishing Rainforest
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 2nd Edition. Brand new. Seller Inventory # vikatL1869901088
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