Journal Kept by David Douglas During His Travels in North America 1823-1827, Together with a Particular Description of Thirty-Three Species of American Oaks and Eighteen Species of Pinus, with Appendices Containing a List of the Plants Introduced by Dougl
Journal Kept by David Douglas During His Travels in North America 1823-1827, Together with a Particular Description of Thirty-Three Species of American Oaks and Eighteen Species of Pinus, with Appendices Containing a List of the Plants Introduced by Dougl
David Douglas (1799-1834), the influential Scottish botanist and plant collector, trained as a gardener before attending Perth College and Glasgow University. His genius for botany flourished and his talents came to the attention of the Royal Horticultural Society. With the society's backing he went to North America in 1823, beginning his life-long fascination with the region's flora. He discovered thousands of new species and introduced 240 of them to Britain, including the Douglas fir. Douglas continued to explore and ...
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David Douglas (1799-1834), the influential Scottish botanist and plant collector, trained as a gardener before attending Perth College and Glasgow University. His genius for botany flourished and his talents came to the attention of the Royal Horticultural Society. With the society's backing he went to North America in 1823, beginning his life-long fascination with the region's flora. He discovered thousands of new species and introduced 240 of them to Britain, including the Douglas fir. Douglas continued to explore and discover plant species until his death in the Sandwich Islands (present-day Hawaii) in 1834. This remarkable journal, which remained unpublished until 1914, describes his adventures in North America during 1823-7. It also includes extracts from his journal of his explorations of Hawaii during 1833-4. The appendices include a listing of the plants Douglas introduced to Britain, and contemporary accounts of investigations into the mysterious circumstances of his death.
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New. Trade paperback (US). 380 p. Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture . 1 Plates, black and white. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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None. Very Good. A first edition of this work by David Douglas. Together with a particular description of thirty-three species of American Oaks and eighteen species of pinus with appendices containing a list of the plants introduced by Douglas and an account of his death in 1834. David Douglas was a Scottish botanist who made three separate exploration trips from England to North America. The Second expedition starting in 1824 was his most successful. The Royal Horticultural Society sent him back on a plant-hunting expedition in the Pacific Northwest that ranks among the great botanical explorations of the generation. Douglas introduced the Douglas-fir into cultivation in 1827 as well as several other trees including the Sugar Pine and the Noble Fir. These trees transformed the British Landscape and timber industry. In a cloth binding. Externally, smart with some rubbing and bumping. Sunning and light marking to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, spotted to first and last but otherwise clean. Very Good.
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