In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests Diaries of an English Artist reveal the beauty of the vanishing rainforest

by MEE, Margaret [Tony Morrison, editor]

$40 · Offered by Biblio

In dust jacket

(Woodridge, Suffolk): Nonsuch Expeditions, 1988. Reprint. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Margaret Mee. 4to. Pp. 302. Frontis. color illustration. Foreword by H R H the Duke of Edinburgh K G , K T. Prefaces by Richard Evans Schultes and Roberto Burle Marx. Editor's note by Tony Morrison. Illustrated with black & white and color illustrations by the author. Glossary. Color illustrations to endpapers. Bound in green cloth; spine and cover lettered in gilt. Clean throughout. In the color-illustrated dust jacket. Mee was one of the first environmentalists to draw attention to the devastating impact of large-scale mining and deforestation on the Amazon Basin. Dust jacket is now housed in a clear, removable archival protector.

• Publisher: Nonsuch Expeditions
• Year: 1988
• Edition: Reprint
• Binding: hardcover

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