She begins her account in the city she calls Buenos Ayres, with the discovery that the Rio Grande, once called the Silver River, is a sea of liquid mud,
Crommelin, May. Over the Andes: from the Argentine to Chili and Peru. Macmillan, 1896.
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1871-1872: British painter and traveller Marianne North...
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1871-1872
British painter and traveller Marianne North
undertook the first of many journeys to exotic locales to paint local flora. She journeyed to Canada, the United States, Jamaica and Brazil.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Marianne North Gallery”. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
9 July 1882: The Marianne North Gallery opened at Kew...
