The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
, by NISBET, JACKNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781570616679 | 1570616671
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/3/2010
Between 1824 and 1834, Scottish naturalist David Douglas wandered from New York to Hawaii in quest of promising nursery plants for the London Horticultural Society. He was a complex character whose dogged perseverance delivered a flood of both flora and fauna from the New World.