Bartram John, Bartram William Travels on the St. Johns River 9780813062259

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Автор: Bartram John, Bartram William
Название: Travels on the St. Johns River
ISBN: 9780813062259
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Гидрология и гидросфера

Естественная история

Путевые заметки

ISBN-10: 081306225X
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 224
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 30.01.2017
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 12 black & white illustrations, 1 map
Размер: 231 x 152 x 20
Ключевые слова: Limnology (freshwater),Natural history,Travel writing
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The editors skillfully interpret the geography and natural history, and provide an extensive list of the plants and animals the Bartrams encountered. This work will appeal to naturalists and those interested in early American studies in natural history.--Choice Bringing together descriptions and illustrations of the St. Johns River and its characteristic flora and fauna from the golden age of natural history exploration, this book will be useful to both Bartram scholars and amateur naturalists.--Timothy Sweet, author of American Georgics: Economy and Environment in American Literature, 1580-1864 Illustrates the unique sense of place of Florida and, in particular, the St. Johns River. Guides the reader along a transcendent spiritual journey that ends on the shores of ecology.--R. Bruce Stephenson, author of John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner

In 1765 father and son naturalists John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida, a newly designated British territory and subtropical wonderland. They collected specimens and recorded extensive observations of the plants, animals, geography, ecology, and native cultures of an essentially uncharted region. The chronicle of their adventures provided the world with an intimate look at La Florida.

Travels on the St. Johns River includes writings from the Bartrams journey in a flat-bottomed boat from St. Augustine to the rivers swampy headwaters near Lake Loughman, just west of todays Cape Canaveral. Vivid entries from Johns Diary detail which tribes lived where and what vegetation overtook the rivers slow current. He describes the crisp, cold spring waters tasting like a gun barrel. Excerpts from Williams narrative, written a decade later when he tried to make a home in East Florida, contemplate the environment and the river that would come to be regarded as the liquid heart of his celebrated Travels. A selection of personal letters reveal Johns misgivings about his sons decision to become a planter in an inhospitable pine barren with little more than a hovel as shelter, but they also speak to Williams belated sense of accomplishment for traveling past his fathers footsteps.

Editors Thomas Hallock and Richard Franz provide valuable commentary and a modern record of the flora and fauna the Bartrams encountered. Taken together, the firsthand accounts and editorial notes help us see the land through the explorers eyes and witness the many environmental changes the centuries have wrought.

Thomas Hallock, professor of English at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, is the author of From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of National Pastoral, 1749-1826. Richard Franz is emeritus scientist at the Florida Museum of Natural History and coeditor of Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida: Volume IV, Invertebrates.
Дополнительное описание: Nature and the natural world: general interest|Limnology (inland waters)|Travel writing

Travels on the St. Johns River, Bartram John, Bartram William