The Dreamer and the Doctor A Forest Lover and a Physician on the Edge of the Frontier |
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| Author:
| Nisbet, Jack |
| ISBN: | 978-1-63217-342-3 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2020 |
| Publisher: | Sasquatch Books
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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In the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Northwest, the lives and passions of an American physician and her Swedish naturalist husband helped shape a territory on the cusp of change--from the author ofSources of the RiverandThe Collector. Dr. Carrie Leiberg, a pioneer physician, fought hard for public health while nurturing both a troubled son and a fruit orchard. Her husband, John Leiberg, was a Swedish immigrant and self-taught naturalist who transformed...
More Description In the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Northwest, the lives and passions of an American physician and her Swedish naturalist husband helped shape a territory on the cusp of change--from the author ofSources of the RiverandThe Collector.
Dr. Carrie Leiberg, a pioneer physician, fought hard for public health while nurturing both a troubled son and a fruit orchard. Her husband, John Leiberg, was a Swedish immigrant and self-taught naturalist who transformed himself from pickax Idaho prospector to special field agent for the US Forest Commission and warned Washington DC of ecological devastation of public lands. The Leiberg story opens a window into the human and natural landscape of a century past that reflects all the thorny issues of our present time.