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The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of ~ The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest Jack Nisbet on FREE shipping on qualifying offers Jack Nisbet first told the story of British explorer David Thompson who mapped the Columbia River in his acclaimed book Sources of the River
The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of ~ The Collector is a biography of British naturalist and explorer David Douglas who made two significant expeditions to the Pacific Northwest in the 1820s and ‘30s when the Brits and Americans held joint possession of the territory and no clear boundary had been drawn between Canada and the United States
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The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of ~ The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest In my career as executive director of the Bloedel Reserve I had a number of opportunities to present programs about Northwest plant collectors including Archibald Menzies Thomas Nuttall Lewis Clark and David Douglas
‘The Collector’ David Douglas a great NW botanist ~ Jack Nisbets The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest is a lively new history of a great explorer and botanizer of the early Northwest Nisbet
The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of ~ The Collector a biography of David Douglas and the natural history of the Northwest by Jack Nisbet is worth the time it will take to read it is a writer teacher and naturalist himself and his telling of the life of David Douglas will awaken wonder in those who read it Kitsap Sun
The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of ~ “Nisbet gracefully and concisely traces Douglas’ journey from a gardener’s apprentice in Scotland to a young botanistcollector” The Spokesman Review The Collector a biography of David Douglas and the natural history of the Northwest by Jack Nisbet is worth the time it will take to read it
The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of ~ David Douglas grew up in Scotland the son of a stonemason and studied botany in Glasgow with the great naturalist and fern expert William Jackson Hooker In 1823 at the age of 24 he sailed with Hooker to the Pacific Northwest where he spent 10 years collecting and keeping a journal and naming countless species most notably the Douglas fir
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