Forest Flowers: the Botanical Notes of Margaret Mee

Margaret Mee is not only a world-renowned botanical painter, but also a brave Amazon rainforest explorer and a legendary woman. From 1956 to 1988, Margaret Mee has always been obsessed with the mysterious and magnificent Amazon forest. She went deep into the rainforest 15 times and conducted touching and dangerous expeditions. In "Flowers of the Forest", she truly recorded these adventures and told her work as a botanical painter: how she struggled to find beautiful "forest flowers" in the virgin forest, and created a large number of botanical paintings that were both scientific and artistic. At the same time, she gave poetic and detailed descriptions of the flowers, trees, birds, animals, and indigenous people she met along the way, vividly reproducing the magnificent appearance, charming charm and original customs of the tropical rainforest. As an environmentalist, she became famous around the world for expressing her views and concerns after witnessing the rapid disappearance of tropical rainforests. The book also contains 160 exquisite plant hand paintings, sketches and related photos by Margaret Mi.