Margaret Mee's Amazon: The Diaries of an Artist Explorer
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (883 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1851494545 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Margaret Mee was born in Chesham, Buckinghamshire in 1909. Soon after her death her name was added to the World Wide Fund for Nature, International Conservation Roll of Honour. She died tragically in a road accident in Leicestershire in 1988. For more than 35 years she had lived in Brazil with her hus
"Amazing Drawings of Amazing Drawings of 32 Amazon Expeditions At once an art, adventure, and biography, MARGARET MEE'S AMAZON: DIARIES OF AN ARTIST EXPLORER is profiled here for its simply gorgeous pages packed with botanical illustration and photos. Unlike most illustration titles, however, MARGARET MEE'S AMAZON isn't just a photo or . 2 Amazon Expeditions" according to D. Donovan, Editor/Sr. Reviewer. At once an art, adventure, and biography, MARGARET MEE'S AMAZON: DIARIES OF AN ARTIST EXPLORER is profiled here for its simply gorgeous pages packed with botanical illustration and photos. Unlike most illustration titles, however, MARGARET MEE'S AMAZON isn't just a photo or . Marina C. said Amazing. Margaret Mee was an amazing woman and her work is exquisite. This book is perfect because it shows a great part of Mee's work in Amazon in her own words, with beautiful illustrations and photographs. It's a book to look and read all the time.. "FASCINATING MARGARET MEE" according to Nancy J. Dickison. I have read another book by Margaret Mee and must confess to being fascinated by her life story. Her life was one of which most of us will only glimpse from our armchairs. But most wonderful of all are her beautiful botanical drawings. This book provides a real gateway into
Her first expedition to as was in 1956 and it was then that she began to keep the diaries that, along with her paintings, drawings and sketches, make up this book. Although plant hunting always came first whenever possible and practical, other events often took over. A small dug-out canoe could become a waterlogged, if not dangerous, place to be; rapids had to be got through; recalcitrant boatmen were gently or sternly coerced; drunken prospectors were held off with a revolver. Her initial objective, to search out and illustrate the glorious flora growing in the tree canopies and along the innumerable waterways of the great rivers of the basin, was later combined with a growing concern at the
Donna SeamanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved. From Booklist British botanical artist and explorer Margaret Mee (1909-88) recorded her observations with pen and brush. In this munificent volume, her graceful and exquisitely detailed paintings of flora and fauna, works that combine both science and art, are accompanied by photographs and her extensive travel journals. Like a great plant explorer, Mee had a profound affinity for the place, its plants, and its people. Filled with botanical information and tales of adventure and hardship--including boat trouble, feuds, getting lost, and being bitten so fiercely by insects that her eyes swelled shut and she had to wrap her hands in plastic--Mee's travelogues are as riveting as her paintings are beautiful