Fields of vision : essays on the Travels of William Bartram /

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...

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Other Authors: Braund, Kathryn E. Holland, 1955-, Porter, Charlotte M., 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2010.
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Table of 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.