ISBN: 9780679430452

Slaughter has broken the confines of ordinary narrative history. . . . Books about the business of fatherhood and the trials of sonhood are very rare, and this is a fine one.--Boston Glob… Mehr…

Slaughter has broken the confines of ordinary narrative history. . . . Books about the business of fatherhood and the trials of sonhood are very rare, and this is a fine one.--Boston GlobeJohn Bartram was the greatest horticulturist and botanist of eighteenth-century America, a farmer-philosopher who won the patronage of King George III and Benjamin Franklin. His son William was a pioneering naturalist who documented his travels through the Florida wilderness in prose and drawings that inspired a generation of Romantic poets. In telling their stories, Thomas Slaughter creates a complex and compelling dual biography that is also a history of early American attitudes toward nature. As he follows the Bartrams through their respective careers--and through the tenderness and disappointment of the father-son relationship--Slaughter examines the ways in which each viewed the natural world: as a resource to be exploited, as evidence of divine providence, as a temple in which all life was interconnected and sacred. The Natures of John and William Bartram is a major work of natural and human history--beautifully written, psychologically insightful, and full of provocative ideas concerning the place of nature in the imagination of Americans, past and present.A fascinating page-turner that should not be missed. --Michael Kammen, Cornell University Media > Book, [PU: Random House; Alfred A. Knopf]<

ISBN: 9780679430452

Slaughter has broken the confines of ordinary narrative history. . . . Books about the business of fatherhood and the trials of sonhood are very rare, and this is a fine one.--Boston Glob… Mehr…

Slaughter has broken the confines of ordinary narrative history. . . . Books about the business of fatherhood and the trials of sonhood are very rare, and this is a fine one.--Boston GlobeJohn Bartram was the greatest horticulturist and botanist of eighteenth-century America, a farmer-philosopher who won the patronage of King George III and Benjamin Franklin. His son William was a pioneering naturalist who documented his travels through the Florida wilderness in prose and drawings that inspired a generation of Romantic poets. In telling their stories, Thomas Slaughter creates a complex and compelling dual biography that is also a history of early American attitudes toward nature. As he follows the Bartrams through their respective careers--and through the tenderness and disappointment of the father-son relationship--Slaughter examines the ways in which each viewed the natural world: as a resource to be exploited, as evidence of divine providence, as a temple in which all life was interconnected and sacred. The Natures of John and William Bartram is a major work of natural and human history--beautifully written, psychologically insightful, and full of provocative ideas concerning the place of nature in the imagination of Americans, past and present.A fascinating page-turner that should not be missed. --Michael Kammen, Cornell University Media > Book, [PU: Random House; Alfred A. Knopf]<

1996, ISBN: 9780679430452

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Western Canada Wilderness, 1990. Large paperback in very good + condition. Small name written on title page.. Soft cover. Very Good., Vancouver, Briti… Mehr…

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Western Canada Wilderness, 1990. Large paperback in very good + condition. Small name written on title page.. Soft cover. Very Good., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Western Canada Wilderness, 1990, New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. 1996. 1st Edition. 8vo 304pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations Remainder mark The nature of early America as seen through the eyes of two 18th century botanical explorers ., Alfred A. Knopf, 1996<

1996, ISBN: 0679430458

[EAN: 9780679430452], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group], Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.

ISBN: 9780679430452

Hardcover book. Published by Alfred A. Knopf Media > Book, [PU: Random House; Alfred A. Knopf]