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| Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies Bibliographies |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Isobel Wylie Hutchison; Isobel Wylie Hutchison |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gwyneth Hoyle |
| ISBN: | 0803224036 9780803224032 |
| OCLC Number: | 44769019 |
| Description: | xv, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Carlowrie -- The Search for Meaning -- The Making of a Traveler -- Through the Ice Belt -- A Householder in Greenland -- Unknown Island -- Prelude to Adventure -- Into the Ice -- Prisoner on a Sandspit -- By Dogsled to Aklavik -- The Lure of Distant Horizons -- To the Edge of the Western World -- Around the World and Home Again -- The Blessings of Friendship, the Curse of Old Age -- The Literature of Travel and Adventure -- Hutchison and Wylie Family Trees -- Extract from Appendix of North to the Rime-Ringed Sun. |
| Series Title: | Women in the West. |
| Responsibility: | Gwyneth Hoyle. |
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Abstract:
"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.
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- Hutchison, Isobel Wylie, -- 1889-1982.
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