The Travels of William Bartram: Naturalist Edition - Softcover

William Bartram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820320277 ISBN 13: 9780820320274

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1998

Synopsis

William Bartram travelled from Philadelphia on a four-year journey ranging from the Carolinas to Florida and Mississippi, observing plants and birds. Francis Harper has transformed Bartram's accounts of the southern states into this guidebook.

About this title

Review:

It is the visionary quality which gives Bartram's writing its special radiance: the passionate, wonder-struck, daring, and very personal scientism, the repeated acts of rapt, total absorption.

--James Dickey

This is much more than a new edition of The Travels; it is really two books in one. . . . Harper has traveled the routes followed by John Bartram in the 1760's and William in the 1770's. The study is a labor of love, but also a labor of great scholarly value . . . Superb [and] indispensable.

--American Quarterly

In the southeastern forests and savannahs, Bartram experienced a wild that we can no longer know in our mechanized and urbanized present. Our sense of environmental loss imparts an elegiac fascination to his evocative and rapturous descriptions.

--New Republic

About the Author:

William Bartram (1739-1823) is renowned as one of the first early American naturalists. Francis Harper (1886-1972) was a noted field biologist and the author of many books, including "Okefinokee Album" (Georgia).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0820320277
• ISBN 13: 9780820320274
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 824
• Editor: Francis Harper