topic:"Botany" found 5 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Contents: Part I: Getting started -- Part II: Plant profiles -- Part III: Preparations and recipes -- Part IV: Economics -- Part V: For reference.

Notes: Many of the plants included in this publication can be found in the Canadian Rockies.

ISBN: 9780986827105

Accession Number: P2024.01

Call Number: 02.7 G78b

Collection: Archives Library

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Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teaching of plants

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2013

Author: Wall Kimmerer, Robin

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions

Call Number: 07.2 W15b

Author: Wall Kimmerer, Robin

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions

Published Date: 2013

Physical Description: 390 pages ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; Traditional Knowledge; Science; Botany

Abstract: As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.

Contents: Planting Sweetgrass ; Skywoman falling ; The council of pecans ; The gift of strawberries ; An offering ; Asters and goldenrod ; Learning the grammar of animacy ; Tending Sweetgrass. Maple sugar moon ; Witch hazel ; A mother's work ; The consolation of water lilies ; Allegiance to gratitude ; Picking Sweetgrass ; Epiphany in the beans ; The three sisters ; Wisgaak Gokpenagen : a black ash basket ; Mishkos Kenomagwen : the teachings of grass ; Maple nation : a citizenship guide ; The honorable harvest ; Braiding Sweetgrass ; In the footsteps of Nanabozho: becoming indigenous to place ; The sound of silverbells ; Sitting in a circle ; Burning cascade head ; Putting down roots ; Umbilicaria : the belly button of the world ; Old-growth children ; Witness to the rain ; Burning Sweetgrass ; Windigo footprints ; The sacred and the superfund ; People of corn, people of light ; Collateral damage ; Shkitagen : People of the seventh fire ; Defeating Windigo ; Epilogue: Returning the gift

ISBN: 978-1-57131-356-0

Accession Number: P2022.01

Call Number: 07.2 W15b

Collection: Archives Library

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Explorers' sketchbooks : the art of discovery & adventure

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2017

Author: Lewis-Jones, Huw; Herbert, Kari

Publisher: San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books

Edition: 1st ed.

Call Number: N L49 E97

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Author: Lewis-Jones, Huw; Herbert, Kari

Responsibility: Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 320 p. : illus. (colour)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Art; Travel; Maps; Botany; Ecology; Anthropology; Tourism

Abstract: The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery. (from publisher's website)

Contents: Foreward; Introduction; The sketchbooks; Biographies; Selected reading; Illustration credits; Acknowledgements; Index

Notes: Signed by Huw Lewis-Jones "Banff 2017"

ISBN: 9780452158273

Accession Number: AC635

Call Number: N L49 E97

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

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Julia : a biography of Julia W. Henshaw

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2018

Author: Kluckner, Michael

Publisher: [Vancouver, British Columbia] : Midtown Press

Call Number: 08.3 Kl66j

Author: Kluckner, Michael

Responsibility: Michael Kluckner

Publisher: [Vancouver, British Columbia] : Midtown Press

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: 131 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Henshaw, Julia W.; Women; Authors; Biography; Botany; World War, 1914-1918; Canada

Abstract: "A novelist, journalist, socialite, botanist, explorer, and World War I ambulance driver, Julia Henshaw was a unique and colourful personality. This graphic biography follows her extraordinary life from Montreal to Vancouver, from the Rocky Mountains to England, and from the mining towns of BC's Kootenays to the battlefields of France and Belgium. Her strongly expressed views of women's roles and voting rights, of racial and class issues, and of Canada's relationship to Great Britain and the USA are an illuminating contrast with the values of her contemporaries, and with society today."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Prelude; Mrs. Charles Henshaw; Julian Durham; Julia W. Henshaw; Gwen; Captain Julia Henshaw; "Gentle Julia"; Afterword; Key players; Supplementary notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes: Graphic novel with mention of Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Signed copy.

ISBN: 978-1-988242-20-0

Accession Number: p2019-25

Call Number: 08.3 Kl66j

Collection: Archives Library

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Nature on the page : the print and manuscript culture of Victorian natural history

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2019

Author: Zytaruk, Maria

Publisher: Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

Call Number: 04 Z1n

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Author: Zytaruk, Maria

Responsibility: Maria Zytaruk

Publisher: Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Botany; Birds; Art; History; Exhibition catalogue; Exhibitions

Abstract: This is the catalogue to an exhibition that will showcase both the collecting and manuscript practices of Victorian naturalists and how books, in some instances, encased the specimens themselves. A special focus here is women practitioners of natural history--as authors of and contributors to published works, and as artists and collectors (From publisher's website)

Contents: Foreward; Introduction; Chapter 1: Plans and the matter of the Victorian book; Chapter 2: Paper birds; Chapter 3: Containing nature; Chapter 4: Women in the world of Victorian botany; Chapter 5: Orchids for the few; Epilogue; Appendix: List of itmes in the exhibition

ISBN: 9780772761262

Accession Number: 2021.07

Call Number: 04 Z1n

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publishers website

Websites

https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/nature-page-print-and-manuscript-culture-victorian-natural-history-0

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