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The Land Between the Rivers - Thomas Nuttall's Ascent of the Arkansas, 1819 (Hardcover, New)
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The Land Between the Rivers - Thomas Nuttall's Ascent of the Arkansas, 1819 (Hardcover, New)
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An adventure story from the wilds of early America, "The Land
between the Rivers" recreates the journeys of the English botanist
Thomas Nuttall, one of American history's most well-traveled
scientists.
During the early nineteenth century, Nuttall explored the waters,
valleys, plains, and mountains of the Great Lakes, Ohio River,
Mississippi River, as well as the Missouri, Arkansas, Red, and
Canadian river valleys of the former Louisiana Territory.
In this fascinating account of Nuttall's travels through the
wilderness of the middle west, author Russell Lawson-using
Nuttall's own journal-captures the sense of excitement of the early
wanderer. As much a delight for the mind as the senses, The Land
between the Rivers details the unremitting weather and rugged
geography of uncharted lands within the Louisiana Territory. A
sense of discovery pervades the narrative as Nuttall's odyssey
builds to its climax in the prairie wilderness of what is now
Oklahoma. Sickened by "ague"-in his case, malaria-Nuttall at times
was barely able to go on; yet he continued to search for and
catalog plants and animals.
"The Land between the Rivers" expands our knowledge of the work of
one of the country's earliest botanists. We also learn a great deal
about the early explorers, the inhabitants of the unsettled land,
and about the land and culture of the times.
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