Eliza Scidmore : the trailblazing journalist behind Washington's cherry trees / Diana P. Parsell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parsell, Diana P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women geographers.

Women journalists.

Women journalists--United States--Biography.

Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah, 1856-1928.

Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Deeply researched and briskly written, this first-ever biography of Eliza Scidmore, the pioneering journalist who fought to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington, DC draws heavily on her own writings to follow major events of a half-century as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman who was far ahead of her time.

Contents:

cover

Praise for Eliza Scidmore

Frontispiece

titlepage

copyright

dedication

Contents

Author's Note

Prologue: A Grave in Yokohama

Part 1: Foundations

1 Child of the Frontier

2 A Fresh Start

3 World's Fair

4 ``Lady Writer''

5 Inside Passage to Glacier Bay

6 The Potomac Flats

Part 2: Far and Wide

7 Jinrikishas in Japan

8 A Singular Vision

9 Among the Scientists

10 A Voice for Conservation

11 New Highway to the East

12 ``Miss Scidmore, of Everywhere''

13 Trouble in China

14 Eyes on Japan

Part 3: A Dream Realized

15 ``The World and All That Is in It

16 Field of Cherries

17 An Ally in the White House

18 Up in Smoke

19 ``Mrs. Taft Plants a Tree''

20 War and Peace

Epilogue: At Home in the World

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-288999-0

0-19-190558-5

0-19-264054-2

9780191905582

OCLC:

1376286041