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For the travelers coming to Sicily on the Grand Tour, the encounter with the luxuriant vegetation of the Mediterranean was as aesthetically and emotionally moving as the sight of the classical ruins they had come to view, an encounter that was almost always enhanced by some knowledge of botany and by a thorough education in the classics. The Garlands of the Gods is an attempt to restore the fullness of this 'Sicilian experience' to today's travelers, providing them with historical, botanical and mythological information about Sicily's spectacular wild flowers. Key

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Mary Taylor Simeti is a New Yorker who has been living in Sicily for over fifty years. She is the author of On Persephone's Island and six other books regarding the island, and for years she contributed regularly to the travel sections of the New York Times and to its Sophisticated Traveler supplement, and then to the Arts and Leisure section of the Financial Times of London. Susan Pettee lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. She studied botanical painting with Anne-Marie Evans at the English Gardening School in London and received a Certificate in Botanical Painting from the Society of Botanical Artists in England in 2007. She has exhibited in New York, in Washington, D.C., in Portland, Oregon, Great Barrington, and in Paris and Perigueux, France.

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