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Bartram's living legacy : the travels and the nature of the South / William Bartram ; Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, editor.

Other author/creatorDallmeyer, Dorinda G.
Included WorkBartram, William, 1739-1823. 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.
Format Book and Print
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoMacon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxxxix, 567 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Bartram, William, 1739-1823--Travel --Southern States.
Natural history--Southern States.
Natural history--North Carolina.
Natural history--Southern States --Early works to 1800.
Natural history--North Carolina --Early works to 1800.
Indians of North America--Southern States.
Indians of North America--Southern States --Early works to 1800.
Southern States--Description and travel.
North Carolina--Description and travel.
Southern States--Description and travel --Early works to 1800.
North Carolina--Description and travel --Early works to 1800.
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Bartram's living legacy. 1st ed. Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2010
LCCN 2010020193
ISBN9780881462098 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0881462098 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780881462227 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0881462225 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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