Flowers in the Snow: The Life of Isobel Wylie HutchisonU of Nebraska Press, 1 janv. 2001 - 269 pages Over the course of a dozen years, Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889?1982) explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American Aleutians. To achieve her goals, she traveled by any means available, from rowboats in Greenland to trading schooners and coast-guard vessels in Alaska. When necessary, she journeyed by snowshoe or sled in pursuit of her botanical specimens, accompanied only by strangers who served as guides. In Flowers in the Snow, Gwyneth Hoyle paints a vivid portrait of a woman gloriously out of the step with the conventions of her time. |
Table des matières
Carlowrie | 9 |
The Making of a Traveler | 32 |
A Householder in Greenland | 60 |
Unknown Island | 78 |
Into the Ice | 108 |
Prisoner on a Sandspit | 122 |
By Dogsled to Aklavik | 139 |
The Lure of Distant Horizons | 157 |
To the Edge of the Western World | 172 |
Around the World and Home Again | 188 |
The Blessings of Friendship | 204 |
Extract from Appendix | 235 |
Bibliography | 253 |
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