topic:"Botany" found 3 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: A literary field guide of art, poetry, and natural history for 128 of the Beings that live in the thirteen biogregions that make up Cascadia, a region that ranges from southeast Alaska to northern California and from the Pacific coast to the Continental Divide"-- Provided by publisher."Through engaging natural history, poetry, and art, Cascadia Field Guide celebrates [more than 120 beings in the Cascadia region], exploring how they interconnect. It's a useful guide to understanding behavior, appearance, and adaptation, as well as an inspirational anthology - a book that embraces science, while appealing to the mind and heart. This is a guide to be savored and treasured, bringing an imaginative perspective to our "known" natural world"....Also featured is a diverse community of regional voices - more than 100 poets and writers, along with fourteen artists, who speak for, and with, the natural world: Colleen J. McElroy, Theodore Roethke, Rena Priest, David James Duncan, Claudia Castro Luna, Tess Gallgher, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Doyle, Chris Dombrowski, Kim Heacox, Claire Emery, Joe Feddersen, Raya Friday, and more. -- From interior

ISBN: 9781680516227

Accession Number: P2024.01

Call Number: 04 B73c

Collection: Archives Library

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Flower : exploring the world in bloom

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

Published Date: 2020

Author: Clarke, Victoria

Publisher: London ; New York : Phaidon Press Limited

Call Number: 06.1 C55f

Author: Clarke, Victoria

Publisher: London ; New York : Phaidon Press Limited

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: 351 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm

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

Subjects: Art; Botany; Flowers; Photography

Abstract: Takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and image-makers have employed floral motifs throughout history. Showcasing the diversity of blooms from all over the world, Flower spans a wide range of styles and media - from art, botanical illustrations, and sculptures to floral arrangements, film stills, and textiles - and follows a visually stunning sequence with works, regardless of period, thoughtfully paired to allow interesting and revealing juxtapositions between them.

ISBN: 9781838660857

Accession Number: 2022.27

Call Number: 06.1 C55f

Collection: Archives Library

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Old man's garden : the history and lore of southern Alberta wildflowers

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

Published Date: 2020

Author: Brown, Annora

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 04.1 B81 2020

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Author: Brown, Annora

Responsibility: Annora Brown; Mary-Beth Laviolette (introduction); Niitsitapi (Siksika) Bishop - the Right Reverand Sidney Black (forward)

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: xxii, 268 pages : illustrations (some colour)

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

Subjects: Botany; Folklore; Art; Flowers; Brown, Annora

Abstract: Through pen and ink illustrations and stories, Old Man’s Garden conveys the legends and folklore connected with Southern Alberta’s wildflowers, native plants, and Indigenous culture. Originally published in 1954, Annora Brown’s Old Man’s Garden is a Canadian classic that tells the story of Southern Alberta’s native plants and wildflowers through art and in consideration of Indigenous traditional knowledge from the region. Accompanying the new RMB edition of Old Man’s Garden, Sidney Black of Fort Macleod, the Indigenous Anglican Bishop for Treaty 7, provides his own commentary about Annora’s art and writing in relation to the Blackfoot, while independent art curator Mary-Beth Laviolette broadens the story about the artist’s contribution to Canadian art. Also included in this new edition are full-colour images of Annora’s later paintings of Blackfoot lodges (tipis) and regalia, the dramatic landscape of the Oldman RIver region such as Waterton National Park, and her abiding, lifelong regard for the flora of her homeland. According to Annora Brown, Old Man’s Garden is a “book of gossip about the flowers of the West.” A one-of-a-kind work featuring 169 black-and-white drawings of flowers and native plants, this classic text is about more than botany. Throughout its pages there is a sparkle to her stories of early exploration and settlement, her concern for conservation, and her regard for the Blackfoot Nation, and Indigenous culture. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)

Contents: Forward by Niitsitapi (Siksika) Bishop - the Right Reverand Sidney Black; Introduction to the new edition by Mary-Beth Laviolette; Introduction to the 1954 edition; I Wi-suk-i-tshak; II Trail Blazers; III Moon-When-the-Grass-Turns-Green; IV Old Man's Vegetable Garden; V Old Man's Medicine Bag; VI Dyes; VII Desert and Swamp; VIII Incense; IX Moon-of-the-Flowers; X Berries; XI Trees; Index

Notes: Originally published in 1954 by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and 1970 by Gray's Publishing Co.

ISBN: 9781771603447

Accession Number: P2020-6

Call Number: 04.1 B81 2020

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Book on Rocky Mountain Book's website

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