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Author Knobloch, Frieda

Title Botanical companions : a memoir of plants and place / by Frieda E. Knobloch ; foreword by Wayne Franklin
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 182 pages) : illustrations
Series American land and life
American land and life series.
Contents Foreword by Wayne Franklin; Preface and Acknowledgments; Work in Place; Specimens; Album; Letters; Habeas Corpus; Collecting; Red Desert Reprise; Notes; Bibliography
Summary Annotation "In her inquiry into the intricate connections among work, place, and people, Frieda Knobloch explores the lives of two Rocky Mountain botanists, Aven Nelson (1859-1952) and Ruth Ashton Nelson (1896-1987)." "Botanical Companions is a reworking of academic genres that will intrigue readers interested in environmental history, ecocriticism, cultural studies, American studies, and the natural history of the Rocky Mountain West."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-182)
Notes English
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Subject Nelson, Aven, 1859-1952.
Nelson, Ruth Ashton, 1896-1987
Knobloch, Frieda E. -- Travel -- Rocky Mountains Region
SUBJECT Nelson, Aven, 1859-1952 fast
Nelson, Ruth Ashton, 1896-1987 fast
Subject Botanists -- Wyoming -- Biography
Botany -- Rocky Mountains Region
Botany.
Botany
botany.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
NATURE -- Plants -- General.
NATURE -- Essays.
Botanists
Botany
Travel
SUBJECT Wyoming
Subject Rocky Mountains Region
Wyoming
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781587295171
1587295172
9781587294525
1587294524