Thomas Nuttall, Naturalist; Explorations in America 1808 -1841

1967

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Year of publication

1967

Place of printing

Cambridge. Harvard University Press

Author

Graustein, Jeannette E.

Edition

First Edition.

Keyword

Travel - North America Naturalists Travels Women Travellers

Languages

English

First edition

Yes

Description

8vo [24 x 16 cm]; xiv, 481 pp, frontis, illustrations including full-page, double-page maps, notes, index. original pictorial cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (slightly rubbed at corner, not price clipped), fine and clean, unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The first full-length biography of Nuttall, who traveled up the Missouri with the Astoria party which was heading across the country in 1811. He left the party to collect specimens for a perilous three months in hostile Indian country. In 1818 he journeyed alone in the Southwest for two years. In 1834 he traveled with Wyeth to the Pacific. Nuttall was acquainted with Daniel Boone, Richard Henry Dana (who mentions him in his 'Two Years Before the Mast', having traveled back around Cape Horn with him), Audubon and Emerson and made many important contributions to natural history knowledge, including ornithology and botany, and his travels in Arkansas are a classic travel narrative.