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A Region of Astonishing Beauty - The Botanical Exploration of the Rocky Mountains (Paperback)
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A Region of Astonishing Beauty - The Botanical Exploration of the Rocky Mountains (Paperback)
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Loot Price R359
Discovery Miles 3 590
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As we approach the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
in 2004, attention will inevitably turn to the nineteenth-century
explorers who risked life and limb to interpret the natural history
of the American West. Beginning with Meriwether Lewis and his
discovery of the bitterroot, the goal of most explorers was not
merely to find an adequate route to the Pacific, but also to
comment on the state of the region's ecology and its suitability
for agriculture, and, of course, to collect plant specimens. In
this book, Williams follows the trail of over a dozen explorers who
"botanized" the Rocky Mountains, and who, by the end of the
nineteenth century, became increasingly convinced that the flora of
the American West was distinctive. The sheer wonder of discover,
which is not lost on Williams or his subjects, was best captured by
botanist Edwin James in 1820 as he emerged above timberline in
Colorado to come upon "a region of astonishing beauty."
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