Essential Audrey Eagle, The

In 2006, the award-winning 'Eagle's Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand' was published to widespread acclaim and quickly became a modern classic for New Zealand botanists, gardeners and art-lovers. By popular demand, this accessible, affordable new edition presents a beautiful selection of 165 full-colour, full-page reproductions of Audrey Eagle's exquisite botanical paintings for new readers to discover and existing fans to savour. Every plant is depicted at life-size, including Eagle's many detailed enlargements which show the flowers, leaves and seeds of each plant in technically superb detail, while an appendix containing comprehensive notes, drafted in consultation with expert botanists, gives information on every plant. A fresh introduction gives new insights into Audrey Eagle and her life's work, and sets her place in the prestigious history of the botanical illustration of New Zealand's astonishing, unique native flora.

“Meticulous and detailed a work of art' The Dominion.”

Meticulous and detailed a work of art' The Dominion.
'An outstanding contribution to the literature of New Zealand Botany' New Zealand Journal of Botany.
'Each colour plate [is] a work of art and a labour of love' Evening Post.
'A book such as this comes only once or twice in a lifetime. Audrey Eagle's achievement is magnificent' Christchurch Star.
'Audrey Eagle's meticulous and beautiful renditions of our native flora are acclaimed, but it is her insistence on accuracy that makes her works on native trees and shrubs such respected reference books' The Press."

Botanical artist Audrey Eagle has painted New Zealand’s native plants since 1952, culminating in the 2006 publication of her life’s work, Eagle’s Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand, which won the prestigious Montana Medal for non fiction in 2007. In 2013, the University of Otago awarded her an honorary Doctorate for her contribution to botanical publishing. She lives in Dunedin.

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