HUTCHISON, Isobel Wylie.

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Original Companions. First edition of the Scottish Arctic traveller's first published venture into prose. This work is institutionally uncommon: we have been able to trace it in eight locations worldwide.Isobel Wylie Hutchinson (1889-1982) was a polar explorer and botanist who collected seeds and saplings for the Royal Horticultural Society and Kew Gardens on her travels. This work is her semi-autobiographical novel on her earlier life, featuring a protagonist named Ethne with whom Hutchinson shares many similarities. Both women are raised in a castle in Scotland, suffer the early death of their father and explore a love of poetry. Hutchinson had previously had her verse poetry published in The Scotsman and had written accounts of her "strolls" across Scotland for National Geographic.

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