Fields of vision [electronic resource] : essays on the Travels of William Bartram / edited by Kathryn E. Holland Braund, Charlotte M. Porter.
Material type: TextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010Description: xvi, 273 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9780817383244 (electronic bk.); 0817383247 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Bartram, William, 1739-1823 -- Travel -- Southern States -- Congresses | Natural history -- Southern States -- Congresses | Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Congresses | Southern States -- Description and travel -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: F213 | .F53 2010Online resources: Click to ViewContains papers from several conferences.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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