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A Fragile Eden: Portraits of the Endemic Flowering Plants of the Granitic Seychelles Hardcover - 1998

by Rosemary Wise


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  • Title A Fragile Eden: Portraits of the Endemic Flowering Plants of the Granitic Seychelles
  • Author Rosemary Wise
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
  • Date 1998
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780691048178 / 0691048177
  • Weight 3.25 lbs (1.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 9 x 0.98 in (25.40 x 22.86 x 2.49 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97027815
  • Dewey Decimal Code 581.969

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Rosemary Wise is the botanical artist in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford. She has traveled widely to draw and paint plants throughout the world. On a freelance basis, she has worked regularly for the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and has contributed illustrations to numerous books and journals. In 1995 the Linnean Society of London awarded her the Jill Smythies Medal for published botanical illustration.
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xvi, 216, 79 col plates, line drawings. 270x250mm. HB. Fine in d/w.. This book is filled with beautiful full-color illustrations of some of the world's most unusual plants. In 1985 the Oxford University Biological Expedition to the Seychelles studied the vegetation on several of the islands. Rosemary Wise, the department's artist, was asked to accompany the expedition. She became alarmed that the rapidly disappearing species might go unrecorded and made it her mission for the next ten years to paint all of the endemic flora in their natural habitat. She has written an accompanying text (with a contribution by Malcolm Coe) to describe this unique flora.. [9780691048178]
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