Some Recollections of a Happy Life: Marianne North in Australia & New Zealand edited by Helen Vellacott

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Wear to tail book edge. Mark on back endpage. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Small tear at spine top is now protected with book tape. Body text and binding are still excellent.

Marianne North was one of the most remarkable women of the Victorian era. An unmarried lady of independent means born into a highly literate and artistic environment, she became an intrepid traveller, an outstanding botanical artist and an illuminating writer.

This volume, edited by Helen Vellacott, presents her lively account of her time in Australia and NewZealand. Here, for less than a year, she travelled extensively in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania. Her keen powers of observation and wry sense of humour make this a revealing and entertaining account of life in the Australasian colonies in 1880-1881. (book flap)