Description:Archibald Menzies, surgeon and botanist, sailed into the Strait of Juan De Fuca with Captain George Vancouver on April 29, 1792. For the next 20 days, as Vancouver and his crew charted the bays and inlets, Menzies surveyed the plants along the shore. His journal, reprinted here, records more than the botany of the rainshadow. It describes a pristine world and its native inhabitants on the brink of momentous change. It lets us see how far we've come and helps us gauge the gains and losses along the way.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rainshadow: Archibald Menzies and the Botanical Exploration of the Olympic Peninsula. To get started finding Rainshadow: Archibald Menzies and the Botanical Exploration of the Olympic Peninsula, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
63
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Jefferson County Historical Society
Release
1992
ISBN
Rainshadow: Archibald Menzies and the Botanical Exploration of the Olympic Peninsula
Description: Archibald Menzies, surgeon and botanist, sailed into the Strait of Juan De Fuca with Captain George Vancouver on April 29, 1792. For the next 20 days, as Vancouver and his crew charted the bays and inlets, Menzies surveyed the plants along the shore. His journal, reprinted here, records more than the botany of the rainshadow. It describes a pristine world and its native inhabitants on the brink of momentous change. It lets us see how far we've come and helps us gauge the gains and losses along the way.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rainshadow: Archibald Menzies and the Botanical Exploration of the Olympic Peninsula. To get started finding Rainshadow: Archibald Menzies and the Botanical Exploration of the Olympic Peninsula, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.