Travels and Other Writings (Classic, Nature, Penguin) - Softcover

Bartram, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140253009 ISBN 13: 9780140253009

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1988

Synopsis

This classic narrative of travels through America's southern wilderness was first published in 1791 by botanist William Bartram. From an Indian village to an orange grove, from the Mississippi to the Florida coast, this exquisite travel diary--enhanced with Bartram's own line drawings--brings to life the raw beauty of the American South as it was over 200 years ago.

About this title

About the Author

William Bartram (1739-1823) is renowned as one of the first early American naturalists. Francis Harper (1886-1972) was a noted field biologist and the author of many books, including "Okefinokee Album" (Georgia).

Review

It is the visionary quality which gives Bartram's writing its special radiance: the passionate, wonder-struck, daring, and very personal scientism, the repeated acts of rapt, total absorption.

(James Dickey)

This is much more than a new edition of The Travels; it is really two books in one. . . . Harper has traveled the routes followed by John Bartram in the 1760's and William in the 1770's. The study is a labor of love, but also a labor of great scholarly value . . . Superb [and] indispensable.

(American Quarterly)

In the southeastern forests and savannahs, Bartram experienced a wild that we can no longer know in our mechanized and urbanized present. Our sense of environmental loss imparts an elegiac fascination to his evocative and rapturous descriptions.

(New Republic)

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0140253009
• ISBN 13: 9780140253009
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 432