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hardcover, 9 x 12, 160 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59714-116-1 $35.00 Tell me when this hardcover becomes available Join Friends of Heyday and save 20% on your purchase. Download Press Kit A Rare Botanical Legacy: The Contributions of Ruby and Arthur Van Deventer in Northwestern California
Edited by Rick Bennett and Susan Calla; With an essay by David Rains Wallace
Illustrations of some of California’s most exotic flora Del Norte County is one of the most botanically diverse regions of California. In 1936, when Ruby Van Deventer, at the time an unschooled enthusiast, met California's lead field botanist, Professor Willis Linn Jepson, he was enthusiastic. "I am glad to meet someone from Del Norte," he said as he shook Ruby's hand. "We have the least knowledge of that area of anywhere in the state." Jepson, author of the authoritative botanical text The Jepson Manual, encouraged Ruby's botanical collecting and pushed her to learn taxonomy and plant anatomy. As Ruby increased her efforts, Arthur began to illustrate her plants with pen-and-ink drawings and watercolor paintings. Over the years, they compiled a vast flora of Del Norte County--over four hundred specimens, which are now in the Jepson Herbarium at the University of California, Berkeley. A lavish production with more than 128 illustrations of over 120 specimens of the North Coast region, A Rare Botanical Legacy is a long-overdue testament to the Van Deventers' contributions to California botany. David Rains Wallace's introductory essay brings their irrepressible personalities to life and the beautiful reproductions of the paintings inspire a closer look at nature. About the Authors Rick Bennett taught at Del Norte High School for over twenty years before working as an administrator for the College of the Redwoods. He currently teaches art history at Southern Oregon Community College and serves as a trustee for the College of the Redwoods. Susan Calla worked in social services and as a park ranger for Redwood National and State Parks before starting Focus on Nature, a consulting business promoting nature- and heritage-based tourism in Del Norte County. David Rains Wallace has published sixteen books and numerous articles on natural history, conservation, and related subjects. His The Klamath Knot, about the wilderness of northwest California and southwest Oregon, won the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing in 1984 and was included in the San Francisco Chronicle's 1999 list of the twentieth century's 100 best nonfiction books on the West. |
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