Contents |
Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, east & west Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws; containing an account of the soil and natural productions of those regions, together with observations on the manners of the Indians / William Bartram -- The nature of the South / Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, editor. My Bartram / Janisse Ray ; My travels with Bartram's reptiles / Whit Gibbons ; A Florida swamp : in with the Ixia / Bill Belleville ; Shadow on the rivers / Dorinda G. Dallmeyer ; Keowee / John Lane ; Zambezi dirt : embracing Africa, embracing each other, embracing ourselves / Roger Pinckney ; Bartram on blacktop / J. Drew Lanham ; A universal view / Doug Davis ; Words for the birds / Gerald Thurmond ; The real worlds of William Bartram's travels / Kathryn E. Holland Braund ; Bartram's journey to the Cherokee / Christopher Camuto ; A glimpse of the southern frontier / Philip Juras ; Stone blind / Matthew C. Smith ; Losing sight of the bear : William Bartram on the Mississippi River / Dixon Bynum ; Gardening with Bartram / Thomas Hallock ; Vanishing islands, vanishing homes : in search of a single happy evening / Jan DeBlieu ; A moral imperative : who will speak for-- / Thomas Rain Crowe. |
Abstract |
"In this unique anthology, Travels is joined with essays acknowledging the debt Southern nature writers owe the man called the "South's Thoreau." -- back of dust jacket. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Issued in other form | Online version: Bartram's living legacy. 1st ed. Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2010 |
LCCN | 2010020193 |
ISBN | 9780881462098 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0881462098 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 9780881462227 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0881462225 (pbk. : alk. paper) |