Category: Science: Biology: Botany

Copyright/published Year: 2003 by Artisan

ISBN: 1-57965-224-7

Binding: Cloth

The Lewis & Clark expedition will always be the central narrative ì of American expansion, as long, that is, as we allow ourselves to ì feel its imaginative power. Common to this Country reminds ì us once again of the scientific stature of this great expedition ì as well as its romantic freshness. Many of the plants Lewis ì described and collected, including those featured in this book, ì are now to familiar to us that it is hard to imagine them being ì newly discovered.

Our gardens abound with plants that have become tame through our ì constant exposure to them, so that they evoke for us a sense of ì home, of place, no matter how distant or exotic their origins ì really were.

Cloth-bound, 128 pages, with beautiful illustrations by Charlotte ì Staub Thomas.

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