| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Praise for Eliza Scidmore -- Frontispiece -- titlepage -- copyright -- dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Prologue: A Grave in Yokohama -- Part 1: Foundations -- 1 Child of the Frontier -- 2 A Fresh Start -- 3 World's Fair -- 4 ̀̀Lady Writer'' -- 5 Inside Passage to Glacier Bay -- 6 The Potomac Flats -- Part 2: Far and Wide -- 7 Jinrikishas in Japan -- 8 A Singular Vision -- 9 Among the Scientists -- 10 A Voice for Conservation -- 11 New Highway to the East -- 12 ̀̀Miss Scidmore, of Everywhere'' -- 13 Trouble in China -- 14 Eyes on Japan -- Part 3: A Dream Realized |
|
15 ̀̀The World and All That Is in It -- 16 Field of Cherries -- 17 An Ally in the White House -- 18 Up in Smoke -- 19 ̀̀Mrs. Taft Plants a Tree'' -- 20 War and Peace -- Epilogue: At Home in the World -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Deeply researched and briskly written, this biography of Eliza Scidmore, the pioneering journalist who fought to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington, DC draws heavily on her own writings to follow major events of a half-century as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman who was far ahead of her time |
| Notes |
Also issued in print: 2023 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed January 29, 2024) |
| Subject |
Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah, 1856-1928.
|
| SUBJECT |
Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah, 1856-1928 fast |
| Subject |
Women geographers -- United States -- Biography
|
|
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography
|
|
Japanese flowering cherry -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century
|
|
Urban beautification -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century
|
|
Japanese flowering cherry
|
|
Urban beautification
|
|
Women geographers
|
|
Women journalists
|
|
Biography & non-fiction prose.
|
|
Biography.
|
|
United States
|
|
Washington (D.C.)
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
|
|
Biographies
|
|
History
|
|
Biographies.
|
|
Biographies.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780191905582 |
|
0191905585 |
|
