Book ID: 91733
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                
                                                                    
Stiff, Ruth
                                                                    
                                                                
                                                            
                                                                 The Flowering Amazon: Margaret Mee Paintings from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2004. 26 col. plates. 80 p. 4to. Hardcover. 
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                    Twenty-six beautiful colour reproductions of outstanding watercolour illustrations by Margaret Mee, the pioneering female explorerand conservationist, who recorded the diverse beauty of the Amazonianrain forest. With introduction by Ruth Stiff, and a brief history ofKew by Ray Desmond.