In 1985, the Oxford University Biological Expedition to the Seychelles was
busy studying endangered plants on several of the islands. The expedition’s
artist, Rosemary Wise, spent the next ten years painstakingly recording the
island’s flora, and her work, published in A Fragile Eden, is beautiful.
Published by Princeton University Press, £49.50, ISBN 0691048177.
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