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• W4205122051 abstract " Reviews stronger appreciation of both the Nez Perce story and the national narrative of which it forms an integral part. Andrew H. Fisher The College of William and Mary The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest by Jack Nisbet Sasquatch Books, Seattle, 2009. Notes, bibliography, index. 290 pages. $23.95 cloth. Jack Nisbet’s knowledge of nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest inland fur-trade history and his background as a naturalist shine through in this biography of Scottish botanist David Douglas. This perspective brings forth new information to both seasoned Douglas enthusiasts and readers unfamiliar with the Douglas story. The Douglas fir — the ubiquitous evergreen tree of the Pacific Northwest — is familiar to most people living in the region,yet the story of themanforwhomthetreeisnamedisrelatively unknown. Nisbet, in his carefully researched and annotated biography, is helping remedy this situation. Douglas was employed as a plant collector by the Horticultural Society of London and was hosted in western North America by the British Hudson’s Bay Company.He kept a field journal during his travels,and Nisbet draws on As simple as one … two … three … One … share an unforgettable heritage experience. Two … give back by joining or donating to the Oregon Historical Society. Three … match your gifts with a contribution to the Cultural Trust, earning a credit that will reduce your Oregon taxes by your entire donation to the Trust. It all adds up: Trust donations directly benefit the Oregon Historical Society and support 1,200 cultural nonprofits in every county. You give twice but it only costs you once. Now, that’s smart giving. Donate at www.culturaltrust.org. Carleton Watkins, “Cape Horn, Columbia River,” 1867, albumen mammoth print, included in Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867 – 1957, a 2008 exhibition (Portland Art Museum) and book (Oregon State University Press). Photo, collection of Oregon Historical Society. 775 summer street ne, ste 200 salem, or 97301 (503) 986-0088 cultural.trust@state.or.us Follow us on:  OHQ vol. 111, no. 2 Douglas’s journal, correspondence among fur traders, and reports to weave a masterful story of the man behind the science.Douglas was the first scientisttoexploredeepinto the uncharted wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, and as Nisbet writes, “his finely textured accounts of the Northwest still shimmer against a place that, two centuries later, seems both familiar and drastically changed” (p. xiii). Douglas’s persistent efforts during his nearly ten years in western North America introduced more than two hundred new species to the gardens and forests of Europe. Though Douglas has been the subject of several fine biographies since his untimely death in 1834 at age thirty-five,Nisbet’s account is important because of his familiarity with the Pacific Northwest landscape and his ability to readily reveal the natural world Douglas was so passionate about. Nisbet knows his plants and animals and how they were used by Native Americans and fur-trade society. The author also gives readers an understanding of the larger context of the time period in which Douglas did his work:“in Great Britain at that time, botany reigned as the most important of the natural sciences — the basis of all medical training, and an essential cog in the economic engine of the Empire” (p. 8). Nisbet tracked Douglas across present-day Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia , following the routes the plant collector described so vividly in his journals. The biography is organized chronologically, following a prologue that places Douglas in the spring of 1827, hiking across the Rocky Mountains, accompanying the fur traders’ annual York Factory Express from Fort Vancouver to Hudson Bay. They were hauling a year’s worth of furs for London’s fashion markets. Douglas’s own words describe the dramatic mountain landscape, his feelings toward it, and the physical difficulties involved. Nisbet writes the narrative with a voice that quickly relates detail and context: “An oblong tin cylinder with rounded edges hung from a leather strap and bounced against his chest. This collecting box,or vasculum,identified the straggler as the Scottish plant collector and naturalist, David Douglas” (p. x). Five excellent maps help readers organize Douglas’s journeys. Each chapter relates the discrete stories that..." @default.
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