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Travels on the St. Johns River
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Discovery Miles 5 670
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Travels on the St. Johns River
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List price R678
Loot Price R567
Discovery Miles 5 670
You Save R111 (16%)
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A selection of writings from naturalists John and William Bartram,
who explored Florida in 1765In 1765 father and son naturalists John
and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida,
a newly designated British territory and subtropical wonderland.
They collected specimens and recorded extensive observations of the
region’s plants, animals, geography, ecology, and Native
cultures. The chronicle of their adventures provided the world with
an intimate look at La Florida. Travels on the St. Johns River
includes writings from the Bartrams' journey in a flat-bottomed
boat from St. Augustine to the river's swampy headwaters near Lake
Loughman, just west of today’s Cape Canaveral. Vivid entries from
John's Diary detail the settlement locations of Indigenous people
and what vegetation overtook the river's slow current. Excerpts
from William's narrative, written a decade later when he tried to
make a home in East Florida, contemplate the environment and the
river that would come to be regarded as the liquid heart of his
celebrated Travels. A selection of personal letters reveal John's
misgivings about his son's decision to become a planter in a pine
barren with little shelter, but they also speak to William's
belated sense of accomplishment for traveling past his father's
footsteps. Editors Thomas Hallock and Richard Franz provide
valuable commentary and a modern record of the flora and fauna the
Bartrams encountered. Taken together, the firsthand accounts and
editorial notes help us see the land through the explorers' eyes
and witness the many environmental changes the centuries have
wrought.
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