Book Description
Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have started to sun. Dust jacket is only in fair condition with previous owner using sticky tape to reinforce top and tail edges.
This fascinating book serves as a bridge between Rica Erikson's two loves - botany and history. It is the biography of James Drummond (1784-1863), who was born in Hawthornden, Scotland and arrived in Western Australia on the Parmelia in 1829.
He was the first resident government naturalist/botanist, and his family established the property of Hawthornden in the Toodyay Valley near where Rica lived at Bolgart. (State Library of WA).
Includes bibliography and index.