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[3] [4] After witnessing the brutalities of Van Diemen's Land, the Roxburghs embark on their return trip to England on the Bristol Maid. But the ship runs aground on the coral reef off the coast of what is now Queensland. Ellen is the only survivor from the leaky vessel in which the passengers and crew travel to the shore.
Detail of flowers and leaves. Cassia javanica is a fast growing, deciduous / semi-deciduous tree which flowers in spring and sheds its leaves in the winter months. It has a straight trunk that reaches heights of 25 - 40m. The leaves are paripinnate with 12 pairs of elliptical leaves. The flowers range in colour from pale pink to crimson with ...
Between 1801 and 1820, Poiteau and Turpin created an extensive album of botanical drawings, featuring 147 original pieces. These illustrations depicted a vast array of European and exotic plants, often accompanied by detailed annotations on plant anatomy, including flowers, leaves, seeds, and fruits at various stages of development.
Glittery Book Page Leaves. Don't toss your old, tattered books just yet. Use the pages to create glittery fall leaves to add personality to your home for the fall season. Place a leaf on top of a ...
Reviews of A Few Green Leaves were more mixed than its immediate predecessors, Quartet in Autumn and The Sweet Dove Died, which had been successful.The New York Times regarded the novel as equal to anything Pym had previously written [11] and Penelope Fitzgerald - reviewing for the London Review of Books - found it to be the work of a "brilliant comic writer". [12]
Bridge of Scarlet Leaves is a 2012 novel by Kristina McMorris, set during the Japanese American internment of World War II. McMorris has stated that she was inspired to write the book due to her own mixed heritage and decided to call the book Bridge of Scarlet Leaves after reading a Japanese haiku .
The Fallen Leaves is an 1879 novel by Wilkie Collins. [1] The book was dedicated to Caroline Graves. [2] Summary
The book is available in a Portfolio Edition which includes another image/caption pair from the story "Missing in Venice". In 2011 a book titled The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales was published, composed of stories inspired by the book’s illustrations by noted writers, including Tabitha King and Louis ...