William Bartram (1739-1823) is renowned as one of the first early American naturalists. Francis Harper (1886-1972) was a noted field biologist and the author of many books, including "Okefinokee Album" (Georgia).
In the southeastern forests and savannahs, Bartram experienced a
wild that we can no longer know in our mechanized and urbanized
present. Our sense of environmental loss imparts an elegiac
fascination to his evocative and rapturous descriptions.--New
Republic
It is the visionary quality which gives Bartram's writing its
special radiance: the passionate, wonder-struck, daring, and very
personal scientism, the repeated acts of rapt, total
absorption.--James Dickey
This is much more than a new edition of The Travels; it is really
two books in one. . . . Harper has traveled the routes followed by
John Bartram in the 1760's and William in the 1770's. The study is
a labor of love, but also a labor of great scholarly value . . .
Superb [and] indispensable.--American Quarterly
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