In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests

by Margaret Mee

Excellent Book

Genres: Art, Nature

Hardcover

First published November 1, 1987

About the author

Margaret Ursula Mee, MBE (22 May 1909 – 30 November 1988) was a British botanical artist who specialised in plants from the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. She was also one of the first environmentalists to draw attention to the impact of large-scale mining and deforestation on the Amazon Basin.

Reviews

[Erica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, and beautifully illustrated. I loved Mee's account of her life, most of it spent in the Amazon. Her husband Grenville fills in the gaps here to good effect. There are some slippages with facts--incorrect names and dates, etc, but it seems a very faithful account. Mee was a trailblazer, an artist, and a very kind soul.

[Andria · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I appreciated and enjoyed the diary portion of the book, the drawings and paintings were not in a botanical style that I enjoyed.