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The Dreamer and the Doctor
  • Published: 18 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781632173423
  • Imprint: Blue Star Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $39.99

The Dreamer and the Doctor

A Forest Lover and a Physician on the Edge of the Frontier

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23 Oct 2018
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18 Mar 2020
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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 of Sources of the River and The Collector.

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 of Sources of the River and The 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.
  • Published: 18 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781632173423
  • Imprint: Blue Star Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $39.99
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Praise for The Dreamer and the Doctor

"Jack Nisbet's The Dreamer and the Doctor is a textured, insightful history of the waning frontier days of the American West that reads like a novel. The featured couple, a female doctor and an obsessed botanist, provide an unusual lens to a time that is both familiar and antique, a time when science and medicine were rapidly evolving but were still intensely personal. Entwined in the narrative are the roots of the battle for Western public lands, the impact of federal science, and a growing awareness of the impact of forest fires."
--Kirk Johnson
Sant Director
Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

"Jack Nisbet continues to educate, entertain, and mesmerize with this meticulously written and researched story of two people-of-destiny whose intelligence and passion transformed our awareness and understanding of the Northwest. Part history, part adventure tale, part love story, part futuristic foreshadowing, this book fascinated me from beginning to end with its eloquence, urgency, and quiet intensity."
--Kim Barnes
Author of In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country