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Eliza Scidmore - The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees (Hardcover)
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Eliza Scidmore - The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees (Hardcover)
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'A wonderful connecting of two women writers' stories more than a
century apart.' Julia Kuehn, The University of Hong Kong The
first-ever biography of the pioneering female journalist who fought
to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington, DC Every age has
strong, independent women who defy the gender conventions of their
era to follow their hearts and minds. Eliza Scidmore was one such
maverick. Born on the American frontier just before the Civil War,
she rose from modest beginnings to become a journalist who roamed
far and wide writing about distant places for readers back home. By
her mid-20s she had visited more places than most people would see
in a lifetime. By the end of the nineteenth century, her travels
were so legendary she was introduced at a meeting in London as
"Miss Scidmore, of everywhere." In what has become her best-known
legacy, Scidmore carried home from Japan a big idea that helped
shape the face of modern Washington: she urged the city's park
officials to plant Japanese cherry trees on a reclaimed mud
bank-today's Potomac Park. Though they rebuffed her suggestion
several times, she finally got her way nearly three decades later
thanks to the support of First Lady Helen Taft. Scidmore was a
"Forrest Gump" of her day who bore witness to many important events
and rubbed elbows with famous people, from John Muir and Alexander
Graham Bell to U.S presidents and Japanese leaders. She helped
popularize Alaska tourism during the birth of the cruise industry,
and educated readers about Japan and other places in the Far East
at a time of expanding U.S. interests across the Pacific. At the
early National Geographic, she made a lasting mark as the first
woman to serve on its board and to publish photographs in the
magazine. Around the same time, she also played an activist role in
the burgeoning U.S. conservation movement. Her published work
includes books on Alaska, Japan, Java, China, and India; a novel
based on the Russo-Japanese War; and about 800 articles in U.S.
newspapers and magazines. Deeply researched and briskly written,
this first-ever biography of Scidmore 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.
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