Flowers in the Snow: The Life of Isobel Wylie Hutchison

by Gwyneth Hoyle

Book Overview

Over the course of a dozen years, Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982) 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803273444
• ISBN13: 9780803273443
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"