{"product_id":"the-forgotten-botanist-sara-plummer-lemmons-life-of-science-and-art-paperback-softback-9781496222817","title":"The Forgotten Botanist; Sara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496222817","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Forgotten Botanist\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWynne Brown (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496222817\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 26 photographs, 23 illustrations, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"In this attentive and richly researched portrait, writer Wynne Brown honors not just Plummer Lemmon's many accomplishments but her verve and courage.\"-Tess Joosse, \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Brown weaves together research in newspaper accounts, personal letters, field notes, photographs, and other personal papers to create a remarkable, intimate biography of a fascinating woman.\"-R. C. Hedreen, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Botanist\u003c\/i\u003e] is a memorable account of an accomplished life.\"-\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Richly details Plummer Lemmon’s life of pluck and inquisitiveness that led to grand, sometimes harrowing, adventures and discoveries.”-Beth Surdut, \u003ci\u003eDesert Leaf\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to understand the contribution of women to the field of botany, but also to anyone who wants to read a fascinating and memorable tale of life as a botanist in the 19th century. Sara will come alive for you on these pages. Hopefully, her days of being a forgotten botanist may finally be in the past.\"-Amy Boyd, \u003ci\u003ePlant Science Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Botanist\u003c\/i\u003e is a timeless tale about a woman who discovered who she was by leaving everything behind. Her inspiring story is one of resilience, determination, and courage-and is as relevant to our nation today as it was in her own time.\"-Mary Sauers, NCompass blog\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The history of botany is filled with intrepid, brilliant women, but few have gotten their due. Wynne Brown has written a lively life of Sara Plummer Lemmon, a brave nineteenth-century botanist who explored the West. She earned the admiration of the great botanists of her day, and she deserves ours as well.”-Victoria Johnson, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Eden\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“In this long overdue biography of Sara Lemmon, Wynne Brown restores an overlooked luminary of the Southwest to her proper place in history. Brimming with narrative verve and a naturalist’s eye for detail, \u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Botanist\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid account of how one woman overcame great odds to help shape western botany.”-Francisco CantÚ, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Line Becomes the River\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A stirring and intimate portrait of an unconventional, resourceful, and adventurous transplant to the American West.”-Susan Cummins Miller, editor of \u003ci\u003eA Sweet, Separate Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Using botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon’s copious letters to family and friends, author Wynne Brown delves into Lemmon’s hopes and successes as well as her challenges and disappointments as she and her botanist husband pursued undescribed plants throughout the West.”-Carolyn Niethammer, author of \u003ci\u003eA Desert Feast\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWILLA Literary Award Winner in Creative Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e 2022 Spur Award Winner\u003cbr\u003e 2022 Top Pick in Southwest Books of the Year \u003cbr\u003e New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Finalist in Cover Design \u003cbr\u003e Honorable Mention in the At-Large NFPW Communications Contest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Botanist\u003c\/i\u003e is the account of an extraordinary woman who, in 1870, was driven by ill health to leave the East Coast for a new life in the West-alone. At thirty-three, Sara Plummer relocated to Santa Barbara, where she taught herself botany and established the town’s first library. Ten years later she married botanist John Gill Lemmon, and together the two discovered hundreds of new plant species, many of them illustrated by Sara, an accomplished artist. Although she became an acknowledged botanical expert and lecturer, Sara’s considerable contributions to scientific knowledge were credited merely as “J.G. Lemmon \u0026amp; wife.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Botanist\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles Sara’s remarkable life, in which she and JG found new plant species in Arizona, California, Oregon, and Mexico and traveled throughout the Southwest with such friends as John Muir and Clara Barton. Sara also found time to work as a journalist and as an activist in women’s suffrage and forest conservation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Botanist\u003c\/i\u003e is a timeless tale about a woman who discovered who she was by leaving everything behind. Her inspiring story is one of resilience, determination, and courage-and is as relevant to our nation today as it was in her own time.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: New York Harbor, December 1869\u003cbr\u003e 1. “\u003cbr\u003eNow I Am at the Jumping Off Place”\u003cbr\u003e: San Francisco, 1870\u003cbr\u003e 2. “\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps You’\u003cbr\u003eve Heard Our Sadie Was Killed”\u003cbr\u003e: Santa Barbara, 1870\u003cbr\u003e 3. “\u003cbr\u003eIt Is Like Death to Me to Be Idle”\u003cbr\u003e: Santa Barbara, 1871–\u003cbr\u003e76\u003cbr\u003e 4. “\u003cbr\u003eA Great Botanist from the Sierras”\u003cbr\u003e: Michigan, the Civil War, and Northern California, 1832–\u003cbr\u003e76\u003cbr\u003e 5. “\u003cbr\u003eMy Dear, Soul-Knit Brother”\u003cbr\u003e: Santa Barbara and Sierra Valley, 1876–\u003cbr\u003e77\u003cbr\u003e 6. “\u003cbr\u003eInto the Matrimonial Vortex!”\u003cbr\u003e: Santa Barbara and Oakland, 1877–\u003cbr\u003e80\u003cbr\u003e 7. “\u003cbr\u003eTry to Touch the Heart of Santa Catalina”\u003cbr\u003e: Southern Arizona, Spring 1881\u003cbr\u003e 8. “\u003cbr\u003eAn Extreme Outpost of Civilized Life”\u003cbr\u003e: Southern Arizona, Fall 1881\u003cbr\u003e 9. “\u003cbr\u003eEleven Days of Dungeon Life”\u003cbr\u003e: Southern Arizona, Fall 1881\u003cbr\u003e 10. “\u003cbr\u003eHappy in Our Work \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e in Each Other”\u003cbr\u003e: Oakland, 1881–\u003cbr\u003e82\u003cbr\u003e 11. “\u003cbr\u003eRushing, Reckless Life of a True Mining Town”\u003cbr\u003e: Southern Arizona, Summer 1882\u003cbr\u003e 12. “\u003cbr\u003eA Botanical Paradise”\u003cbr\u003e: Southern Arizona, Summer–\u003cbr\u003eFall 1882\u003cbr\u003e 13. “\u003cbr\u003eConsidered by Less Ambitious a Fine Season’\u003cbr\u003es Work”\u003cbr\u003e: Oakland and Southern Arizona, 1882–\u003cbr\u003e83\u003cbr\u003e 14. “\u003cbr\u003eLives Cast in Pleasant Places”\u003cbr\u003e: Northern Arizona and New Mexico, 1884\u003cbr\u003e 15. “\u003cbr\u003eGrandest Display the World Has Ever Known”\u003cbr\u003e: New Orleans and New England, 1884–\u003cbr\u003e85\u003cbr\u003e 16. “\u003cbr\u003eOur Hillock in Cholame”\u003cbr\u003e: Near San Luis Obispo, California, 1885–\u003cbr\u003e87\u003cbr\u003e 17. “\u003cbr\u003eLife, to Me, Seems Sweeter Each Year”\u003cbr\u003e: Oakland and Mexico, 1887–\u003cbr\u003e88\u003cbr\u003e 18. “\u003cbr\u003eThe Narrowest Escape from Instant Death”\u003cbr\u003e: Oakland, 1888–\u003cbr\u003e91\u003cbr\u003e 19. “\u003cbr\u003eSell Everything and Move to California!”\u003cbr\u003e: Oakland and Chicago, 1891–\u003cbr\u003e93\u003cbr\u003e 20. “\u003cbr\u003eA Sweet, Sacred Togetherness”\u003cbr\u003e: Oakland and Mexico, 1894–\u003cbr\u003e98\u003cbr\u003e 21. “\u003cbr\u003eWish We Were Out in the Wild Woods”\u003cbr\u003e: Oakland and Arizona, 1899–\u003cbr\u003e1903\u003cbr\u003e 22. “\u003cbr\u003eSafe-Tho’\u003cbr\u003e Tremendously Shaken”\u003cbr\u003e: Arizona and Oakland, 1903–\u003cbr\u003e6\u003cbr\u003e 23. “\u003cbr\u003eI Feel So Helpless and Alone”\u003cbr\u003e: Oakland, 1906–\u003cbr\u003e12\u003cbr\u003e 24. “\u003cbr\u003ePartners in Botany”\u003cbr\u003e: Oakland, 1908–\u003cbr\u003e23\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599905747224,"sku":"9781496222817","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-forgotten-botanist-sara-plummer-lemmons-life-of-science-and-art-paperback-softback-9781496222817","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}