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William Bartram, the search for nature's design : selected art, letters, and unpublished writings / edited by Thomas Hallock & Nancy E. Hoffmann ; Joel T. Fry, associate editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wormsloe Foundation nature bookPublication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2010.Description: xvi, 608 p. : col. ill., map ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780820328775 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0820328774 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QH31.B232 A4 2010
Other classification:
  • NU 5700
Online resources:
Contents:
Early years (1754-1765) -- "Tardy genius" (1766-1772) -- Travels south (1772-1776) -- From travels to travels (1780-1791) -- "The philosopher of Kingsessing" (1791-1803) -- Mentor (1803-1813) -- Memorials (1813-1849) -- William Bartram's "Commonplace book" -- William Bartram's draft manuscript for travels: private journal and public book -- "The dignity of human nature": William Bartram and the great chain of being -- Native Americans in William Bartram's "Hints & observations" -- All equally dear to God: William Bartram's antislavery manuscript -- The Bartram-Muhlenberg correspondence (1792-1810) -- The elements of botanical art: William Bartram, Benjamin Smith Barton, and the scientific imagination -- William Bartram and eighteenth-century medicine: a collection of recipes from post-revolutionary Philadelphia -- William Bartram's "Garden calendar" -- Appendixes: A. Calendar of correspondence -- B. Preliminary list of illustrations by William Bartram -- C. Chronology of William Bartram's travels, 1773-1777 -- D. Manuscript alterations and comments.
Summary: "William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design provides, for the first time, a primary text survey of the full career of one of the most important North American naturalists of the eighteenth century, and a man whose travels, collections, gardens, writing, and expertise placed him at the center of an emergent global network of natural history correspondents.

Includes bibliographical references ( [535]-549) and index.

Early years (1754-1765) -- "Tardy genius" (1766-1772) -- Travels south (1772-1776) -- From travels to travels (1780-1791) -- "The philosopher of Kingsessing" (1791-1803) -- Mentor (1803-1813) -- Memorials (1813-1849) -- William Bartram's "Commonplace book" -- William Bartram's draft manuscript for travels: private journal and public book -- "The dignity of human nature": William Bartram and the great chain of being -- Native Americans in William Bartram's "Hints & observations" -- All equally dear to God: William Bartram's antislavery manuscript -- The Bartram-Muhlenberg correspondence (1792-1810) -- The elements of botanical art: William Bartram, Benjamin Smith Barton, and the scientific imagination -- William Bartram and eighteenth-century medicine: a collection of recipes from post-revolutionary Philadelphia -- William Bartram's "Garden calendar" -- Appendixes: A. Calendar of correspondence -- B. Preliminary list of illustrations by William Bartram -- C. Chronology of William Bartram's travels, 1773-1777 -- D. Manuscript alterations and comments.

"William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design provides, for the first time, a primary text survey of the full career of one of the most important North American naturalists of the eighteenth century, and a man whose travels, collections, gardens, writing, and expertise placed him at the center of an emergent global network of natural history correspondents.

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