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The Natures of John and William Bartram (Paperback)
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The Natures of John and William Bartram (Paperback)
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John Bartram (1699-1777), the first native-born American to devote
his entire life to the study of nature, was an eminently practical
man, a scientist devoted to the rigorous description of living
things. Among his subjects was the Venus flytrap, along with
hundreds of species of plants and animals, fully one quarter of all
the plants identified and sent to Europe during the colonial
period. His son William (1739-1823) was a pioneering naturalist who
documented his travels through the Florida wilderness in prose and
drawings that inspired a generation of Romantic poets. William's
lyrical Travels is read today, while John's work is not. As he
follows the Bartrams through their respective careers-and through
the tenderness and disappointment of the father-son
relationship-Thomas P. Slaughter examines the ways each viewed the
natural world: as a resource to be exploited, as evidence of divine
providence, as a temple in which all life was interconnected and
sacred. The Natures of John and William Bartram is a major work of
natural and human history-beautifully written, psychologically
insightful, and full of provocative ideas concerning the place of
nature in the imagination of Americans, past and present.
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