Penguin, New York, 2000, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-14-029181-4.  Trade soft cover, 226 pages followed by Reader’s Guide.  Very good; remaindered copy with light edge wear, some rubs, light crease on front wrap.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages; black & white illustration at beginning of each chapter.  ‘In the spring of 1898, A. E. (Alexandria) Bartram – a feisty young woman with a love for botany – is invited to join a field study in Yellowstone National Park.  Its leader, a mild-mannered professor from Montana, mistakenly assumes she is a man, and is less than pleased to discover the truth.  Once the scientists overcome the shock of having a woman on their team, they forge ahead on a summer of adventure, forming an enlightening web of relationships as they move from Mammoth Hot Springs to a camp high in the backcountry.  But as they make their way collecting amid Yellowstone’s pristine beauty – threatened even a century ago by misguided tourism – the group is splintered by differing views on science, nature, and economics.’ (from rear wrap)