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Author McGuire, Thomas (Alaskan writer), author.

Title Steller's Orchid / Thomas McGuire.

Publication Info. Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019.
©2019

Item Status

Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations
text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Note Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
Summary In 1924, John Lars Nelson travels to the Shumagin Islands in the Gulf of Alaska. He tells people he is doing a botanical survey, but the real goal of his quest is a mysterious orchid described by a naturalist in 1741 and never again seen. During his journey, John Lars hitches a ride on a schooner whose bootlegger captain has a hidden past. John Lars also meets a young Aleut woman, Natasha Christiansen. She becomes his guide and leads him to question the validity of everything he thought he knew. Together, they reach Nagai Island where the search for the orchid comes to a violent conclusion.
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Subject Plant collecting -- Fiction.
Plant collecting.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Scientific expeditions -- Fiction.
Scientific expeditions.
Aleuts -- Alaska -- Fiction.
Aleuts.
Alaska.
Botanists -- Fiction.
Botanists.
Shumagin Islands (Alaska) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books. .
Fiction.
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
Other Form: Print version: 1597098604 9781597098601
ISBN 9781597098281
1597098280
9781597098601
1597098604