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Re(dis)covering Our Foremothers : Nineteenth-Century Canadian Women's Writers.
Published 1989Table of Contents: “…; Women and the Garrison Mentality: Pioneer Women Autobiographers and their Relation to the Land; Susanna Moodie; "Splendid Anachronism": The Record of Catharine Parr Traill's Struggles as an Amateur Botanist in Nineteenth-Century Canada.…”
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The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden : empire, science, and intellectual culture in British New York
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Red, white, & black make blue : indigo in the fabric of Colonial South Carolina life
First edition.Published 2013Table of Contents: “…South Carolina indigo in British textiles for the home and Colonial market ; South Carolina indigo in the dress of slaves and sovereign Indians -- Indigo cultivation and production in South Carolina. Botanists, merchants, and planters in South Carolina : investments in indigo ; The role of indigo in native-colonist struggles over land and goods ; Producing South Carolina indigo : colonial planters and the skilled labor of slaves -- Indigo plantation histories. …”
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Red, white, & black make blue : indigo in the fabric of Colonial South Carolina life
First edition.Published 2013Table of Contents: “…South Carolina indigo in British textiles for the home and Colonial market ; South Carolina indigo in the dress of slaves and sovereign Indians -- Indigo cultivation and production in South Carolina. Botanists, merchants, and planters in South Carolina : investments in indigo ; The role of indigo in native-colonist struggles over land and goods ; Producing South Carolina indigo : colonial planters and the skilled labor of slaves -- Indigo plantation histories. …”
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Beaux livres : le jardin des plantes de montpellier.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…origine à nos jours, une histoiredu Jardin""; ""Naissance du Jardin""; ""Lâ€?Ã?re des grands botanistes ""; ""Le renouveau du xixe siÃ?cle""; ""Romantisme et littérature""; ""Quand la botanique sâ€?…”
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Banksia Lady : Celia Rosser, Botanical Artist
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Title Page; Imprint and Copyright Information; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Book; Chapter 2: Mr Blunt, Professor Stearn & the Copper Plates; Chapter 3: Empire; Chapter 4: The Marlo Banksia; Chapter 5: The Leveson Gallery; Chapter 6: The Maud Gibson and the Herbarium; Chapter 7: The Club ; Image block; Chapter 8: Monash; Chapter 9: The Painting; Chapter 10: The Project; Chapter 11: The Artist and the Botanist; Chapter 12: Field Work; Chapter 13: Studio; Chapter 14: Artisans of Britain; Chapter 15: Volume II.…”
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I Bless You in My Heart : Selected Correspondence of Catharine Parr Traill.
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Research today. Archaeologists, researching the past
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Archeology of the Funeral Mound : Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia.
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Bold Boys in Michigan History
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Jim Abbott: A Lefty from the Start; Liberty Hyde Bailey Jr.: The Boy Botanist; Thomas Edison: Bursting with Ideas; Gerald Ford: Michigan's Best-Known Boy Scout; Casey Kasem: A Determined Deejay; Charles Langlade: A Fur Trapper's Friend; John Lautner: Born to Build; Joe Louis: A Hard-Hitting Kid; Stevens T. …”
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First vintage : wine in Colonial New South Wales
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Plant life of a desert archipelago : flora of the Sonoran islands in the Gulf of California
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The Tallgrass Prairie Center guide to seed and seedling identification in the Upper Midwest
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Chuckwalla land : the riddle of California's desert
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Naturalists at sea : scientific travellers from Dampier to Darwin
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…The 'rambling voyages' of William Dampier, self-taught naturalist -- 'Ten years of preparation; ten hours of exploration' : the Alaskan tribulations of Georg Wilhelm Steller -- 'My plants, my beloved plants, have consoled me for everything' : the fortunes and misfortunes of Philibert Commerson -- 'No people ever went to sea better fitted out for the purposes of natural history' : Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander -- 'A kind of Linnaean being' : the woes of Johann Reinhold Forster -- 'Curse scientists, and all science into the bargain' : Cook, Vancouver and 'experimental gentlemen' -- 'Devilish fellows who test patience to the very limit' : naturalists with La Pérouse and d'Entrecasteaux -- 'All our efforts will be focussed on natural history' : the scientific and political voyage of Alejandro Malaspina -- 'When a botanist first enters so remote a country he finds himself in a new world' : the Australian surveys of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders -- 'Like giving to a blind man eyes' : Charles Darwin on the Beagle.…”
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Strings attached
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…-- Missing Ingredients -- Grape Leaves -- The Meaning of Life -- How to Fall Gently from the Precarious Pedestal -- The Botanist and Her Amaryllis -- To Be Fed -- Baklava Killed My Father…”
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Nelumbonaceae to Vitaceae : water lotuses to grapes
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Published 2014Table of Contents: “…-- Missing Ingredients -- Grape Leaves -- The Meaning of Life -- How to Fall Gently from the Precarious Pedestal -- The Botanist and Her Amaryllis -- To Be Fed -- Baklava Killed My Father…”
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Late self-portraits : poems
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…On the Morning That Follows My Death -- Death of the Botanist -- Visions of Johanna, jpg #12 -- All Souls -- Dinner with Hades -- Born on Rembrandt's Birthday -- Pandemia, Mouth of Insomnia -- Politico -- God of Nightfall -- Act of Faith -- Notes -- Acknowledgments…”
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Acanthaceae to Myricaceae : water willows to wax myrtles
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The Kew tropical plant families identification handbook
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German Histories and Pacific Histories : New Directions.
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…German Apothecaries and Botanists in Early Modern Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan; Chapter 2. …”
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Growing wild : the correspondence of a pioneering woman naturalist from the Cape
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A memory of ice : the Antarctic voyage of the Glomar Challenger
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Mr. Guilfoyle's South Sea Islands adventure on H.M.S. Challenger
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The Lynx and the Telescope : the Parallel Worlds of Federico Cesi and Galileo.
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…-- The Multiple Gaze of the Botanist -- The Elusive Geometry of Plants -- Glimmerings of Consciousness and Sexual Drives -- The Bologna Stone Again -- The Garden of Flavours -- Food for the Mind -- A Preformistic Conception? …”
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The history and philosophy of astrobiology : perspectives on extraterrestrial life and the human mind
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Leitner -- The debate over Panspermia : the case of the French botanists and plant physiologists at the beginning of the twentieth century / Stéphane Tirard -- Extraterrestrial life for the masses : Knut Lundmark and the boundaries of science / Gustav Holmberg -- The organization of astrobiology in a sociological context / Urszula K. …”
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Marine plants of the Texas coast
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Alexander Wilson : the Scot who founded American ornithology
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Where our food comes from : retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine
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Stalin and the scientists : a history of triumph and tragedy, 1905-1953
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