Mary Sch ffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Japan at the turn of the twentieth century. In Searching for Mary Sch ffer, Colleen Skidmore takes up Sch ffer's own resonant themes--women and wilderness, travel and science--to ask new questions, tell new stories, and reassess the persona of Mary Sch ffer imagined in more recent times. Public and private...