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Frank Meyer gave America the Meyer lemon, introduced thousands of plants into American agriculture, and spent thirteen years walking through Asia for the USDA. But behind the useful crops and botanical triumphs was a stranger story: a restless plant hunter who used distance as orientation, until the road stopped saving him. In 1918, Meyer vanished from a river steamer on the Yangtze. Three days later, his body was found withou
Henderson Lewelling hid slaves under his floor, planted the Pacific Coast fruit industry, and sailed away in the dark to Honduras. A portrait of a Quaker abolitionist who couldn't stop building paradise — and couldn't stop leaving it behind.
