Flowers in the snow
Subtitle: the life of Isobel Wylie Hutchison
By: Gwyneth Hoyle.
Series: Women in the West
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Hutchison, Isobel Wylie, -- 1889-1982; Women botanizers -- Scotland -- Biography; Women travelers -- Scotland -- Biography; Botanizers -- Scotland -- Biography; Travelers -- Scotland -- Biography; Arctic regions -- Description and travel
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Over the course of a dozen years Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American Aleutians. To achieve her goals she traveled by any means available, from rowboats in Greenland to trading schooners and coast guard vessels in Alaska. When necessary, she journeyed by snowshoe or sled in pursuit of her botanical specimens, accompanied only by strangers who served as guides. In Flowers in the Snow Gwyneth Hoyle paints a vivid portrait of a woman gloriously out of step with the conventions of her time."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261) and index.