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Flowers in the snow : the life of Isobel Wylie Hutchison / Gwyneth Hoyle.
Van Pelt Library QK46.5.B66 H69 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoyle, Gwyneth.
- Series:
- Women in the West
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hutchison, Isobel Wylie, 1889-1982.
- Hutchison, Isobel Wylie.
- Women botanizers--Scotland--Biography.
- Women botanizers.
- Women travelers--Scotland--Biography.
- Women travelers.
- Botanizers--Scotland--Biography.
- Botanizers.
- Travelers--Scotland--Biography.
- Travelers.
- Arctic regions--Description and travel.
- Arctic regions.
- Arctic Regions.
- Scotland.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 269 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Over the course of a dozen years Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American Aleutians. To achieve her goals she traveled by any means available, from rowboats in Greenland to trading schooners and coast guard vessels in Alaska. When necessary, she journeyed by snowshoe or sled in pursuit of her botanical specimens, accompanied only by strangers who served as guides. In Flowers in the Snow Gwyneth Hoyle paints a vivid portrait of a woman gloriously out of step with the conventions of her time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0803224036
- OCLC:
- 44769019
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