Chasing Lewiss Monkeyflower

Name: Chasing Lewiss Monkeyflower
Brand: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

A look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way?and of their amazing afterlife. \nElizabeth Adelman's Chasing the Missing Monkeyflower is the two hundred-year saga of finding, losing, and finding the wild plants collected on America?s first exploration west, the Lewis and Clark Expedition. \n Thomas Jefferson handpicked Meriwether Lewis to lead the expedition, gather notable specimens along the way, and then write the journals, with one volume to include science-worthy descriptions and classifications of the plants that Lewis collected and pressed to preserve. Not a botanist, Lewis needed help to write this part of the journals. \n Ambition, deceit, theft, wealth, debt, alcoholism, loss, suicide, serendipity, and stubborn persistence\n\nChasing Lewis's Monkeyflower\nThe Amazing Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's Wild Plants\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery us;