Botanizers
- Authors
- Keeney, Elizabeth B.
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Tags
- test
- ISBN
- 9780807820469
- Date
- 1992-09-28T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.96 MB
- Lang
- en
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.