Flowers of the Amazon Forest The Botanical Art of Margaret Mee 2006 Hrdbk VG 21

by Margaret Mee, Margaret Ursula Brown

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Antique Coleectors Club, 2006 Harback. Book Condition; Very Good. The text is clean and unmarked. The binding and hinges are firm. The covers have 2 corners with light bumps. The spine heel has a tiny piece in a flap. Dust Jacket Condition; Very Good. 3 corners wrinkled, top end of spine wrinkled, tiny piece of the bottom end of spine missing. 167 pages. ==== 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.

• Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club
• Year: 2006
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781905377060
• Condition: Very Good

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