Letters from Yellowstone
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Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith
For readers of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things, and Hope Jahren's Lab Girl, Diane Smith'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"I loved this book in a way that I haven't loved a book in some time." --James Welch, author of Fools Crow
In the spring of 1898, A. E. (Alexandria) Bartram--a spirited young woman with a love for botany--is invited to join a field study in Yellowstone National Park. The study'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 Yellowstone'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 America's majestic natural beauty, as well as a thoughtful reflection on environmentalism, Native American displacement, and feminism at the dawn of a new century.
Diane Smith, an Emmy Award-winning television journalist, has been broadcasting in Connecticut since 1982. Positively Connecticut, a highly popular series for Connecticut Public Television, looks for the inspiring, loving, funny, and sometimes just weird stories that give Connecticut its personality. Diane's most recent television effort is All Things Connecticut, a weekly magazine series for Connecticut Public Television. Diane co-hosted the top-rated Morning Show on WTIC-AM News Talk 1080 with Ray Dunaway for nine years. Diane worked for WTNH-TV in New Haven for sixteen years as a news anchor and reporter.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140291810 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140291814 |
| Title | Letters from Yellowstone |
| Author | Diane Smith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2000-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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