The Drummonds of Hawthornden by Rica Erickson

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed title page. Foredges and pages pages are sunned. Dust jacket has marks and small tears to edges. The dust jacket is now enclosed in a protective cover.

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 Hawthornden in the Toodyay Valley, near where Rica lived at Bolgart. (State Library of WA).

Includes bibliography and index.