{"product_id":"the-calf-with-two-heads-louisa-blair-9781771863308","title":"The Calf with Two Heads: Transatlantic Natural History in the Canadas","description":"These beautifully illustrated stories of natural history in nineteenth-century Canada are about the curious men and women who crossed the oceans from Europe to explore, map, draw, puzzle about, collect and exhibit nature in Canada. Informed by French, British and Indigenous naturalists, they tried to understand what they saw. What did it all mean about the origins of the world? Louisa Blair, an amateur naturalist in Quebec and a transatlantic species herself, tells tales on Darwin, Russell Wallace and James Cook, and lingers on the strange and colourful details of Canada's stubborn resistance to evolutionism and its first natural history museums with their penchant for deformities. These stories feature Indigenous mapmakers, botanical artists, bug-bitten rock fanatics, arctic explorers, and a trio of Quebec women who managed to get plants named after themselves. To make her case, Louisa Blair has gathered a vast collection of vintage illustrations. In short, muddy boots, cold hands, a pocket full of fossils, a mind full of existential questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louisa Blair\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771863307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771863308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Baraka Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - Bronze Medal Winner","brand":"Louisa Blair","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48445656662271,"sku":"9781771863308","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c67e4474-6ff1-41f7-b5a2-a8940177b767.jpg?v=1777219876","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-calf-with-two-heads-louisa-blair-9781771863308","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}