In honor of Women’s History Month, the PMP title in the spotlight for March is: Jane Colden: America’s First Woman Botanist by Paula Ivaska Robbins. The daughter of the colonial lieutenant governor of New York, Cadwallader Colden, and a naturalist well known to the international circle of botanists, Jane Colden (1724-1766) became her father’s protégé. She corresponded regularly with several of her father’s friends, exchanging information about plants. Jane’s legacy to botany and colonial New York is the herbal manuscript she created, which now resides at the Natural History Museum in London. The manuscript contains 341 drawings of plants that grew in and around her father’s 3,000-acre estate west of Newburgh. Her work has been recognized by the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Linda Hall Library. 

Coming Soon!

PMP is proud to announce a new edition of Breaking Trail: Remarkable Women of the Adirondacks, first published by PMP in 2004. In this book, authors Peggy Lynn and Sandra Weber teamed up to present the stories of remarkable and courageous women who blazed trails–literally!–through the Adirondacks in the early 20th century. With a new preface, some new songs, and a refreshed design, the new edition will roll off the press in about 4-6 weeks. Pre-order now for a 20% discount. 

Sale on Selected Titles Throughout March: 25% Off 

The Travels of Peter Kalm: Finnish-Swedish Naturalist Through Colonial North America 1748-1751 by the author of Jane Colden, Paula Ivaska Robbins, who again turns to a botanical subject. This is the first general-interest biography of explorer and botanist Peter Kalm, who traveled in Canada and North America during the mid-1700s to collect plants and animals for the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus.

 

 

Sybil Ludington: Discovering the Life of a Revolutionary War Hero by V.T. Dacquino is a succinct biography for young readers of the life and heroism of a sixteen-year old girl who rode through the Hudson Valley to call out her father’s troops to repel British attack during the Revolutionary War.

 

 

The Mohicans and Their Land, 1609-1730 is one of several Native American histories by the celebrated author Shirley Dunn. This one is an exhaustively-researched view into the Mohicans’ ways of life and dealings with Europeans during the period after initial contact.