• The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art Уинн Браун
    ISBN: 1496222814
    Год издания: 2021
    Издательство: Bison Books
    Язык: Английский

    2022 Spur Award Winner 2022 Top Pick in Southwest Books of the Year Honorable Mention in the At-Large NFPW Communications Contest The Forgotten Botanist is the account of an extraordinary woman who, in 1870, was driven by ill health to leave the East Coast for a new life in the West—alone. At thirty-three, Sara Plummer relocated to Santa Barbara, where she taught herself botany and established the town’s first library. Ten years later she married botanist John Gill Lemmon, and together the two discovered hundreds of new plant species, many of them illustrated by Sara, an accomplished artist. Although she became an acknowledged…

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