Margaret Mee In Search Of Flowers Of The Amazon Forests

Science & Nature Art, Design & Photography Biography & Memoir

Margaret Mee In Search Of Flowers Of The Amazon Forests pairs the celebrated botanical artist’s luminous rainforest paintings with her own diary excerpts, edited here by travel writer Tony Morrison. Together their words and pictures trace Mee’s fifteen expeditions along the Amazon’s tributaries, capturing rare epiphytes, bromeliads and the moonflower cactus she rediscovered at age 78.

This lavishly illustrated 1988 Nonesuch Expeditions hardcover reproduces 60 of Mee’s full-color gouaches, each opposite journal pages that describe canopy climbs, river storms and the vanishing habitats she fought to protect. The 302-page volume offers armchair botanists, art lovers and conservationists an intimate view of Brazil’s flora and the English artist who risked everything to record it.

The vintage dust-jacketed copy shows only light shelf rub; inside, the pages remain crisp, unmarked and tightly bound, free of foxing or dog-ears. A clean, smoke-free copy ready for gifting or display.

Collectors of natural history art, South American travel memoirs and women explorer biographies will treasure this firsthand account of scientific adventure and environmental advocacy.