Letters from Yellowstone: A Novel

Letters from Yellowstone: A Novel

For readers of Larry McMurtryâ€™s Lonesome Dove, Elizabeth Gilbertâ€™s The Signature of All Things,Â and Hope Jahrenâ€™s Lab Girl, Diane Smithâ€™s warmhearted and award-winning epistolary novel about a spunky young woman who joins a makeshift field study in Yellowstone National Park at the end of the nineteenth century

â€œI loved this book in a way that I havenâ€™t loved a book in some time.â€ â€”James Welch, author of Fools Crow

In the spring of 1898, A. E. (Alexandria) Bartramâ€”a spirited young woman with a love for botanyâ€”is invited to join a field study in Yellowstone National Park. The studyâ€™s leader, a mild-mannered professor from Montana, assumes she is a man, and is less than pleased to discover the truth. Once the scientists overcome the shock of having a woman on their team, they forge ahead on a summer of adventure, forming an enlightening web of relationships as they move from Mammoth Hot Springs to a camp high in the backcountry. But as they make their way collecting amid Yellowstoneâ€™s beauty, the group is splintered by differing views on science, nature, and economics.

Brimming with humor, excitement, and the romance of the Yellowstone landscape, Letters from Yellowstone is a love letter to the joys of scientific discovery and Americaâ€™s majestic natural beauty, as well as a thoughtful reflection on environmentalism, Native American displacement, and feminism at the dawn of a new century.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2000-06-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140291810

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2000-06-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780140291810

Letters from Yellowstone: A Novel

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