{"product_id":"chasing-lewiss-monkeyflower-the-amazing-afterlife-of-the-lewis-and-clark-expeditions-wild-plants-9780374615024","title":"Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower: The Amazing Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's Wild Plants","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way--and of their amazing afterlife. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElizabeth Adelman's \u003ci\u003eChasing the Missing Monkeyflower\u003c\/i\u003e is the two hundred-year saga of finding, losing, and finding the wild plants collected on America's first exploration west, the Lewis and Clark Expedition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ambition, deceit, theft, wealth, debt, alcoholism, loss, suicide, serendipity, and stubborn persistence cross the plants' paths in Philadelphia, New York, and London. This is the first work detailing the places, practices, and times of a cavalcade of people who touched the plants. A fascinating chronicle of an unexplored byway of the great American story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Adelman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.79w x 1.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374615024","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45246659920009,"sku":"9780374615024","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_7cdb0d8e-955a-448f-8ae0-d3b8b14ea9ae.jpg?v=1770701203","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/chasing-lewiss-monkeyflower-the-amazing-afterlife-of-the-lewis-and-clark-expeditions-wild-plants-9780374615024","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}