On Harper's Trail - Roland Mcmillan Harper, Pioneering Botanist of Southern Coastal

Informationen zum Autor ELIZABETH FINDLEY SHORES is a writer and native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She holds degrees in history from Boston University and the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. Klappentext Roland McMillan Harper (1878-1966) had perhaps 'the greatest store of field experience of any living botanist of the Southeast,' according to Bassett Maguire, the renowned plant scientist of the New York Botanical Garden. This book provides a biography of the accomplished botanist, documentary photographer, and explorer. Zusammenfassung Shores provides the first full-length biography of the accomplished botanist, photographer, and explorer of the southern coastal plain. Incorporating details about Harper's interests, accomplishments, and influences, she follows his entire scientific career, which was anchored by a 35-year stint with the Alabama Geological Survey.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Elizabeth Shores, Elizabeth Findley Shores
• Verlag: The University of Georgia Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780820335223
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3522-3
• Seiten: 296
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Botanik; Sachbuch > Natur, Technik > Biographien, Autobiographien