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expedition
exploration
lewis and clark
Product details
- ISBN 9780374615024
- Weight: 481g
- Dimensions: 135 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 16 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Elizabeth Adelman's Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower is the two-hundred-year saga of finding, losing, and finding again the wild plants collected on America’s first exploration west, the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Thomas Jefferson handpicked Meriwether Lewis to lead the expedition, gather notable specimens along the way, and then write the journals, with one volume to include science-worthy descriptions and classifications of the plants that Lewis collected and pressed to preserve. Not a botanist, Lewis needed help to write this part of the journals.
Ambition, deceit, theft, wealth, debt, alcoholism, loss, suicide, serendipity, and stubborn persistence cross the plants’ paths in Philadelphia, New York, and London. Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower is the first work detailing the places, practices, and lives of a cavalcade of people who came into contact with the plants. It is a fascinating chronicle of an unexplored byway of the great American story.
Elizabeth Adelman gardened on weekends and summer evenings for many years while pursuing a career in law. Twenty-five years ago, she gave in and started Heritage Flower Farm, an award-winning nursery whose perennial flowers are featured in botanic gardens, historic sites, and backyard gardens around the country. About a decade ago, a friend introduced her to the plants collected on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and she was hooked. She lives outside Milwaukee.
