Book ID: CBB001200540

William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings (2010)

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Bartram, William (Author)
Hallock, Thomas (Editor)
Hoffmann, Nancy E. (Editor)
Fry, Joel T. (Editor)


University of Georgia Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xvi + 608 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

An important figure in early American science and letters, William Bartram (1739-1823) has been known almost exclusively for his classic book, Travels. William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design presents new material in the form of art, letters, and unpublished manuscripts. These documents expand our knowledge of Bartram as an explorer, naturalist, artist, writer, and citizen of the early Republic. Part One, the correspondence, includes letters to and from Bartram's family, friends, and peers, establishing his developing consciousness about the natural world as well as his passion for rendering it in drawing. The difficult business of undertaking scientific study and commercial botany in the eighteenth century comes alive through letters that detail travel arrangements, enduring hardship, and mentoring. Commonly regarded as a recluse or eccentric, Bartram instead emerges as deeply engaged with the major ideas, issues, and intellectual life of his time. Part Two presents selections from Bartram's diverse but little-known unpublished writings. Leading scholars in their field introduce manuscripts such as a draft for Travels, garden diaries faithfully kept, an antislavery treatise scrawled on the back of a plant catalog, a commonplace book, pharmacopia compiled for his brothers, and exacting accounts of Native American culture. Each selection reveals another dimension of Bartram's unending interest in the world he encountered at home and traveling the southern colonies.

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Reviewed By

Review Slaughter, Thomas P. (2011) Review of "William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (p. 205). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Hoffmann, Nancy E.; Hallock, Thomas (2010) Part Two. Selected Manuscripts. In: William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings (p. 245). unapi

Chapter Hallock, Thomas; Fry, Joel T.; Hoffmann, Nancy E. (2010) Part One. A Life in Letters. In: William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings (p. 19). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Moore, D. T.
Alexandrowicz, Stefan Witold
Goldstein, Jurgen
Walker, Brian M.
Varela, Alex Gonçalves
Vallance, Thomas
Concepts
Naturalists
Travel; exploration
Botany
Biographies
Natural history
Scientific expeditions
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Enlightenment
Places
United States
Australia
Philadelphia, PA
Portugal
Great Britain
Atlantic world
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