Download or read book A Vision of Eden written by Marianne North and published by Bernan Press(PA). This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1871 Marianne North escaped the swaddling of Victorian society and departed on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. This abridged version of her lively travel memoirs and autobiography is illustrated in colour with a selection from her collection of over 800 pictures now housed in the Marianne North gallery at Kew.