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Flowers in the snow : the life of Isobel Wylie Hutchison

Author: Gwyneth Hoyle
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2001.
Series: Women in the West.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : English
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"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,  Read more...
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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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"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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