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Review: Travels in art

Botanist Marianne North set up her easel to record this Flor imperiale,
coral snake and spider. Find out more in Recollections of A Happy Life
(University Press of Virginia, pp 174, Pounds sterling 53.95 hbk, Pounds
sterling 16.95 pbk).

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