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

Description:

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.

Condition

Fine in d/w.