women botanists

As a child, Anna loved to collect plants and insects with her scientist father. As an adult, she became a botanist, and in 1843, published the first book of photographs---cyanotype prints of her vast seaweed collection.

Two women separated by more than sixty years, find their lives converging on Easter Island, where they both discover their true inner selves.

When Mendoza is sent back from the twenty-fourth century to recover things from the past that would otherwise be lost, she finds herself falling in love with men from different centuries and making her own mark on history.

Alma, born into luxury in 1800, becomes a gifted botanist like others in her family, but as she delves into the mysteries of evolution she falls in love with a man who pulls her in the opposite direction, into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical.

The author describes how she decided to become a botanist, what education she needed, and what work opportunities are available in the field of botany. Includes plant science lessons.

Recounts the experiences of Jeanne Baret as she became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe while working on Louis Antoine de Bougainville's ships in the mid-eighteenth century.