The Botanizers: Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America

By Elizabeth B. Keeney

Book Overview

Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers, ' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines, fiction, and autobiographies of the day, she explores the popular culture of this avocation, which attracted both men and women by the thousands.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807872059
• ISBN13: 9780807872055
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"