Recreated in this stunning volume, 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. What is truly incredible is that in addition to Amazonian adventures she also produced botanical illustrations acclaimed worldwide by botanists and art critics alike. It is illustrated throughout with her own exquisite flower paintings, many reproduced for the first time, along with photographs from her own collection.
Author Biography
Margaret Mee was born in Chesham, Buckinghamshire in 1909. She died tragically in a road accident in Leicestershire in 1988. For more than 35 years she had lived in Brazil with her husband. Soon after her death her name was added to the World Wide Fund for Nature, International Conservation Roll of Honour.
