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Title Fields of vision : essays on the Travels of William Bartram / edited by Kathryn E. Holland Braund, Charlotte M. Porter
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents The real world of Bartram's Travels / Edward J. Cashin -- William Bartram, Wrightsborough, and the prospects for the Georgia backcountry, 1765-1774 / Robert Scott Davis -- William Bartram's gustatory tour / Kathryn E. Holland Braund -- The two Williams: science and connections in West Florida / Robert J. Malone -- William Bartram and the forms of natural history / Stephanie Volmer -- Nature, man, and God: the introduction to Bartram's Travels / Burt Kornegay -- Before Bartram: artist-naturalist Mark Catesby / Arlene Fradkin, Mallory McCane O'Connor -- The Bartrams, Clarence B. Moore, and Mount Royal: early archaeology on the St. Johns River, Florida / Jerald T. Milanich -- Where Bartram sat: historic Creek Indian architecture in the eighteenth century / Craig T. Sheldon, Jr. -- E.G. Squier's manuscript copy of William Bartram's Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians / Mark Williams -- William Bartram's Oenothera grandiflora: "the most pompous and brilliant herbaceous plant yet known to exist" / Joel T. Pry -- The mystery of the Okeechobee gourd / Marc C. Minna, Maria Minna -- The role of digital specimen images in historical research / Stephanie C. Haas, Kent D. Perkins, Michael Bond -- Bartram's legacy: nature advocacy / Charlotte M. Porter
Summary A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south. William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulees, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Choctaws. The book, based on his journey across the South, reflects a remarkable coming of age. In 1773, Bartram departed his family home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a British colonist;
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Bartram, William, 1739-1823 -- Travel -- Southern States -- Congresses
SUBJECT Bartram, William, 1739-1823 fast
Subject Natural history -- Southern States -- Congresses
Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Congresses
TRAVEL -- United States -- South -- General.
TRAVEL -- United States -- South -- South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)
Indians of North America
Natural history
Travel
SUBJECT Southern States -- Description and travel -- Congresses
Subject Southern States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Braund, Kathryn E. Holland, 1955-
Porter, Charlotte M., 1948-
LC no. 2009026109
ISBN 9780817383244
0817383247