Abundant Beauty: The Adventurous Travels of Marianne North, Botanical Artist

by Marianne North

In 1871, Marianne North, a brilliant artist with a keen interest in botany, set-forth to travel the world on a quest to paint indigenous plants in their natural habitat. Encouraged by her friend Charles Darwin, North travelled by boat, train, mule, foot and palanquin to every continent except Antarctica. She circled the globe twice over fifteen years and accumulated an extensive and valuable collection of more than eight hundred paintings, which today...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553655419
• ISBN13: 9781553655411
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Greystone Books
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"