Synopsis
David Douglas was one of the most important botanical collectors there has ever been. Thanks to his heroic and often unimaginably arduous explorations, during which he collected and discovered over 200 species, our forests and gardens are immeasurably richer. Not only is the Douglas fir named after him, but also many of our most established conifers, like the Sitka spruce, Grand and Noble firs and the Monterey pine were introduced to Britain by him. Modern-day suburban gardens would be without the flowering currant, lupin, penstemon, alpines, lilies and primroses had Douglas not travelled so widely. He grew up on the Scone Estate near Perth, studied at the Botanical Gardens in Glasgow under William Hooker, the greatest botanist of the nineteenth century, and then made his name through his remarkable excursions to western Canada - once walking nearly 10,000 miles between the Pacific coast and Hudson Bay. His premature death at just 35 was in keeping with the rest of his life, falling into a wild-animal trap in Hawaii.
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Ann Lindsay Mitchell is the author several books on Scottish traditions. She lives in Perthshire a mile from the tallest Douglas fir in Britain. Sid House is a forester who works for the Forestry Commission in Perthshire.
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Paper covers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. A rather pedestrian biography of a great botanical pedestrian and canoeist, whose travels in North America brought a major haul of new plant introductions to British gardens and whose discoveries of new trees were legendary. Douglas perished under dubious circumstances in Hawaii, gaining him semi-mythical status as the archetypal backwoodsman. Though this is a good paperback read, William Morwood's "Traveler in a vanished landscape" (1973) provides a more insightful treatment. x, 246 pp., 8 pp. of monochrome photographs. Weight: 1.0 Language: English Paperback edition with new appendix, first published in 1999 as "David Douglas, explorer and botanist". Seller Inventory # 44533
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. As photographed; in near-new condition, possibly unopened; private ownership; unmarked and clean throughout showing no signs of use; binding tight; pages gently tanned; x + 246 incl. index + 8 pls. "Recounted with botanical understanding and human sympathy in this admirable biography . a highly readable story" (Times Literary supplement, quoted on rear cover). Seller Inventory # 6491