Author: Lindsay, Ann and House, Syd
Title: The tree collector: the life and explorations of David Douglas
Description: Aurum, 2005.Paperback edition with new appendix, first published in 1999 as ""David Douglas, explorer and botanist"".Paper covers.ISBN: 1845130529.Fine/No Jacket.A rather pedestrian biography of a great botanical pedestrian and canoeist, whose travels in North America brought a major haul of new plant introductions to British gardens and whose discoveries of new trees were legendary.Douglas perished under dubious circumstances in Hawaii, gaining him semi-mythical status as the archetypal backwoodsman.Though this is a good paperback read, William Morwood's ""Traveler in a vanished landscape"" (1973) provides a more insightful treatment.x, 246 pp. 8 pp.of monochrome photographs. In English.1.0 kg.

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