André Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785-1797

by Charlie Williams, Andrae Michaux, André Michaux

Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux's work to modern readers and scientists

Known to today's biologists primarily as the "Michx." at the end of more than 700 plant names, Andr Michaux was an intrepid French naturalist. Under the directive of King Louis XVI, he was commissioned to search out and grow new, rare, and never-before-described plant species and ship them back to his homeland in order to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081732030X
• ISBN13: 9780817320300
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 5.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.5" x 10.1"