Flower Hunter: The Remarkable Life of Ellis Rowan

Christine & Michael Morton-Evans

ISBN 10: 064227701X / ISBN 13: 9780642277015

Published by see below, 2009

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2009 National Library of Australia paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flower Hunter: The Remarkable Life of Ellis Rowan
• Publisher: see below
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 064227701X
• ISBN 13: 9780642277015
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural History

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Synopsis

Published by the National Library of Australia. Ellis Rowan was one of Australia's most accomplished artists and an incredible if somewhat unexpected adventurer. During World War I Ellis ventured alone into the tropical jungles of New Guinea in search of all 72 known species of the Bird of Paradise. Not only was she the first white woman to do such a thing, she was also 70 years old. The Flower Hunter is the incredible story of a woman who went to extraordinary lengths to paint her beloved subject matter, journeying to some of the most wild and inhospitable areas of Australia and beyond. On her death in 1922 there was hardly a household in Australia that didn t know her name. Sadly today she is all but forgotten, yet her work lives on in the 970 paintings carefully preserved in the National Library of Australia and in this, the definitive story of Ellis Rowan s remarkable life.