Hardy Californians: A Woman's Life with Native Plants
by Lester Rowntree
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages391 pages
ISBN
9780520250512
Description
Lester g. Rowntree (1879-1979), free-spirited adventurer and pioneering botanist, was fifty-two when she traded a comfortable home for the life of a peripatetic traveler in the California mountains, deserts, and forests....Lester g. Rowntree (1879-1979), free-spirited adventurer and pioneering botanist, was fifty-two when she traded a comfortable home for the life of a peripatetic traveler in the California mountains, deserts, and forests. Through hundreds of magazine and journal articles, two acclaimed books, and uncounted public lectures, rowntree shared her vast knowledge of California lester g.