Flowers of the Amazon Forest: The Botanical Art of Margaret

Flowers of the Amazon Forest: The Botanical Art of Margaret Mee
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Margaret Mee must rank as one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. She was an intrepid explorer of the Brazilian rainforest and an outstanding botanical artist, acclaimed by botanists and art critics worldwide. At the age of 47 Mee started exploring the Amazon, travelling throughout the wildest parts of Amazonia for the next thirty years. Mee learned to live with the forest and its plants, animals and people and learnt much from the Native people about the trees and plants she so meticulously painted. Mee initially sketched the plants in the forest and then worked on the large illustrations of the entire plant in her studio in Rio de Janeiro. Nine of these plants recorded by Mee, previously unknown to science, are now named after her. Flowers of the Amazon Forests: The Botanical Art of Margaret Mee illustrates more than sixty of Mee's major works with additional sketches painted while in the forest. The text is taken directly from the diaries she kept whilst travelling, giving

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Antique Collectors Club Dist
Manufacturer	Antique Collectors Club Dist
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	over 200 colour drawings & photographs
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781905377060
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Flowers of the Amazon Forest: The Botanical Art of Margaret Mee