Recounts Margarte Mee's amazing and adventurous journeys theough the Amazon. Mee's diaraies and sketcjbooks outline the brilliant career of an outstanding and modest botanical artist.
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Recounts Margarte Mee's amazing and adventurous journeys theough the Amazon. Mee's diaraies and sketcjbooks outline the brilliant career of an outstanding and modest botanical artist.
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Add this copy of Margaret Mee's Amazon: the Diaries of an Artist to cart. $47.20, very good condition, Sold by Halcyon Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2004 by ACC Art Books.
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Good Condition in Good jacket. 9781851494545. VG-/Good+ 1st ed 2004 ACC hardback, unclipped DJ, impressive hardback illustrated volume. Crease along top edge of jacket with minor top corner tears to DJ, corners of boards a little bumped, bright and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Exploration; ISBN: 1851494545. ISBN/EAN: 9781851494545. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 090387.
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New. 1851494545. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--HARDCOVER. 320 pages; 470 illustrations, most in color. Description: "For thirty-two years, the artist Margaret Mee was enchanted by and lured back again and again to the massive, unpredictable and fertile rainforests of Amazonas. 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 Amazon basin, was later combined with a growing concern at the commercial plunder of the great forests. Her first expedition to Amazonas 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. She was fascinated by the rich mix of Brazilians she came across and often lived with for a time; she was especially fond of the riverines she met, and over the years became friends with many of them. Between expeditions, some of which lasted for up to four months, Margaret returned home to Sul Paulo, to teaching commitments, and to her own painting. Unpredictable weather, transport and guides meant she often had to make hurried in situ sketches (always meticulously annotated) which she later worked up into colored sketches and finished paintings. In the Autumn of 1988, just after what was sadly to be her last expedition, Margaret came to England to lecture to the Royal Geographic Society and attend the opening of an exhibition of her paintings, Margaret Mee's Amazon, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It is ironic that this enthusiastic lover of the Amazon, who had braved so many hazardous and alarming situations, was killed in a car crash in England. She was seventy-nine, keen to return to the Amazon, and still producing fine work. There is every reason to suppose that more passion and more painting would have been forthcoming. As it is, her legacy is incalculable."--with a bonus offer--
