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Annals of Botany 2005 95(6):1067-1068; doi:10.1093/aob/mci118
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Margaret Mee's Amazon. Diaries of an artist explorer.

Margaret Mee. 2003.

Woodbridge Suffolk, UK: Antique Collectors' Club.

£29·50 (hardback). 320 pp, 400 colour illustrations

PIA PAROLIN

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‘Delight’ said Charles Darwin in his diaries in 1832, ‘is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest’. These feelings must have been those which drove Margaret Mee to explore the Brazilian jungles on numerous expeditions between 1958 and 1964, creating wonderful pictures despite all kinds of difficulties encountered in this hostile world. And these feelings were also those I had when I read this book: delight about her precise drawings and life-like paintings, which are extremely expressive from . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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