Flowers in the Snow: The Life of Isobel Wylie Hutchison

Over the course of a dozen years, Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982) explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American Aleutians. To achieve her goals, she traveled by any means available, from rowboats in Greenland to trading schooners and coast-guard vessels in Alaska. When necessary, she journeyed by snowshoe or sled in pursuit of her botanical specimens, accompanied only by strangers who served as guides. In Flowers in the Snow, Gwyneth Hoyle paints a vivid portrait of a woman gloriously out of the step with the conventions of her time. Gwyneth Hoyle is a research associate at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies at Trent University. She is the coauthor of Canoeing North into the Unknown: A Record of River Travel: 1874 to 1974.

Author: Gwyneth Hoyle
Publisher: Bison
Published: 04/01/2005
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.72h x 5.80w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9780803273443
ISBN10: 0803273444
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers
- Biography & Autobiography | Women

About the Author
Gwyneth Hoyle is a research associate at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies at Trent University. She is the coauthor of Canoeing North into the Unknown: A Record of River Travel: 1874 to 1974.

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