Wild flowers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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0772654530

Wild flowers.

Carr, Emily.

Royal British Columbia Museum

2006

96 pages

$19.95

Paperback

QK203

While recuperating from a stroke during the autumn and winter of 1940-41, Canadian landscape painter Emily Carr turned her attention to writing. This volume presents for t...

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