The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977

by Wendy Dathan

The Reindeer Botanist is the first biography of one of Canada's most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator of botany at the National Museum of Canada. He collected thousands of specimens, greatly enlarging the National Herbarium and making it a superb research centre.

For nearly twenty years, Porsild studied reindeer activities in Alaska and the Northwest Territories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552385868
• ISBN13: 9781552385869
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 748 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"