In 1875, a young naturalist from London named Edwina Von Stetina unexpectedly inherited an isolated country home from an uncle she had never met - Mewingham Manor. This journal is the remarkable chronicle of her first year at the Manor, complete with her sketches of her seafaring uncle's mysterious life's work: the delightful miniature winged cats called Flittens, and their mischievous mouselike tagalongs, the tiny flying Minis. With dozens of color and black and white illustrations.