A Vision of Eden: The Life and Work of Marianne North

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Light foxing to foredges and back endpage. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Body text and binding are also very good.

Marianne North (1830-1890), an unmarried middle-aged Victorian lady of comfortable means, set off in 1871 on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. The story of her travels to every continent in the world, often alone and enduring hardships and dangers in conditions so primitive as to be outside the experience of the modern generation, is told in this abridged version of her travel memoirs and autobiography, first published in 1893 under the title Recollections of a Happy Life. (book flap)

North went to Australia and New Zealand in 1880 and spent a year painting.

Published in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.