May 18th photograph of the David Douglas Memorial, Scone,
Perthshire,
Scotland. The son of a stonemason, he was born in the village of Scone north east of
Perth, Scotland. He worked as a gardener, became a famous botanist, and explored the Scottish Highlands, North America, and Hawaii, where he died.
May 18th photograph of the David Douglas Memorial, Scone,
Perthshire,
Scotland.
May 18th photograph of the David Douglas Memorial, Scone,
Perthshire,
Scotland.
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David Douglas, the premier botanical explorer in the Pacific Northwest and throughout other areas of western North America. Douglas's discoveries include hundreds of western plants, most notably the Douglas Fir. The Collector tracks Douglas's fascinating history, from his humble birth in Scotland in 1799 to his botanical training under the famed William Jackson Hooker, and details his adventures in North America discovering ?exotic? new plants for the English and European market. The book takes readers along on Douglas's journeys into a literal brave new world of, at that time, obscure realms from Puget Sound to the Sandwich Islands. In telling Douglas's story, Nisbet evokes a lost world of early exploration, pristine nature, ambition, and cultural and class conflict with surprisingly modern resonances.
The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
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