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The Tree Collector: The Life And Explorations Of David Douglas - Softcover

Mitchell, Ann Lindsay; House, Sid; Lindsay, Ann

 
9781845130527: The Tree Collector: The Life And Explorations Of David Douglas
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1845130529 ISBN 13: 9781845130527
Verlag: Aurum Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

David Douglas was one of the most important botanical collectors of all time. Thanks to his heroic, often unimaginably arduous explorations, during which he collected and discovered more than 200 species, forests and gardens are immeasurably richer. Not only is the Douglas fir named after him, but conifers such as the Sitka spruce, the Grand and Noble firs, and the Monterey pine were introduced to Britain by him. Douglas, who grew up near Perth, Scotland, studied at the Botanical Gardens in Glasgow under William Hooker, the greatest botanist of the 19th century. He made his name through his remarkable excursions of western Canada?once walking nearly 10,000 miles between the Pacific coast and Hudson Bay.

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Ann Lindsay Mitchell is the author several books on Scottish traditions. She lives in Perthshire a mile from the tallest Douglas fir in Britain. Sid House is a forester who works for the Forestry Commission in Perthshire.

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Verlag
Aurum Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1845130529
ISBN 13 
9781845130527
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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