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Author Braund, Kathryn H

Title The Attention of a Traveller Essays on William Bartram's Travels and Legacy
Published : University of Alabama Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (401 p.)
Contents Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. To the Mississippi -- 1. Bartram's Westerly Wanderings: Economic Transitions in Travels | Taylor McGaughy -- 2. "A Prospect of the Grand Sublime": An Atlantic World Borderland Seen and Unseen by William Bartram | Daniel H. Usner -- Part 2. Bartram and the Natural World -- 3. Wrestling with Bartram's Alligators | Kathryn H. Braund -- 4. The White Cliffs of the Mississippi: Bartram and Deep Time | Dorinda G. Dallmeyer -- 5. Bartram's Tree: Franklinia alatamaha | Joel T. Fry -- Part 3. Visual Bartram
6. "To See the Moveing Pensil -- Display a Sort of Paper Creation, Which May Endure for Ages": William Bartram as a Natural History Artist | Joel T. Fry -- 7. Lively Pictures: William Bartram and Drawing ad vivum | Elizabeth Athens -- 8. "Behold!": Visual Mediation in Bartram's Travels | Andrew B. Ross -- Part 4. On Bartram's trail -- 9. How to Blaze a Trail: Lessons from the Pioneers of the Bartram Trail Conference | Katie Lamar Jackson -- 10. Commemorating Bartram: The Bartram Trail Conference and Interpreting William Bartram | Brad Sanders
11. Signing Nature, Memorializing Plantations: Public Memory along the William Bartram Trail | Thomas Hallock -- Part 5. The Bartram Library -- 12. Shelving Knowledge in Philadelphia: John and William Bartram's Books | Robert McCracken Peck -- 13. Bartram's Travels 1791: A Bibliographic Census | William Cahill, Joel T. Fry, Nancy E. Hoffmann, and Alina Josan -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Bartram, William, 1739-1823. Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, east & west Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws.
Bartram, William, 1739-1823 -- Travel -- Southern States
SUBJECT Bartram, William, 1739-1823 fast
Subject Bartram Trail Conference.
SUBJECT Bartram Trail Conference fast
Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, east & west Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws (Bartram, William) fast
Subject Natural history -- Southern States
Natural history
Travel
SUBJECT Southern States -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125637
Subject Southern States
Form Electronic book
Author Athens, Elizabeth
Cahill, William
Dallmeyer, Dorinda G
Fry, Joel T
Hallock, Thomas
Hoffman, Nancy E
Jackson, Katie Lamar
Josan, Alina
McGaughy, Taylor
ISBN 9780817394073
0817394079