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The Attention of a Traveller: Essays on William Bartram's Travels and Legacy

The Attention of a Traveller: Essays on William Bartram's Travels and Legacy

Braund, Kathryn H.
Athens, Elizabeth
Braund, Kathryn H.

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Adventurers & ExplorersNature WritingRegional: South

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ISBN10: 0817361596
ISBN13: 9780817361594
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: Mar 15 2024
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.42
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

An interdisciplinary reevaluation of William Bartram's Travels, illuminating the natural, cultural, and intellectual landscapes of the eighteenth-century Southeast through diverse scholarly lenses.

William Bartram, 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 Chactaws, was colonial America's first native born naturalist and artist, and the first author in the modern genre of writers who portrayed nature through personal experience as well as scientific observation. His book, first published in 1791, was based on his journeys through southern Indian nations and Britain's southern colonies in the years just prior to the American Revolution and provides descriptions of the natural and cultural environments of what would soon become the American South. Scholars and general readers alike have long appreciated Bartram's lush, vivid prose, his clarity of observation and evident wonder at the landscapes he traversed, and his engagement with the native nations whose lands he traveled through.

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