The Travels of William Bartram. (Literature of the American Wilderness)
Publisher: Peregrine Smith Books
Published: June 1981
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780879050795
Subjects: Nature; Literary; Early works to 1800; Biography & Autobiography; Southern States; Biography/Autobiography; Nature / Field Guide Books; Natural History; Essays; Description and travel; Indians of North America
First sentence: AT the request of Dr. Fothergill, of London, to search the Floridas, and the western parts of Carolina and Georgia, for the discovery of rare and useful productions of nature, chiefly in the vegetable kingdom; in April, 1773, I embarked for Charleston, South-Carolina, on board the brigantine Charleston Packet, Captain Wright, the brig - - - - - - - -, Captain Mason, being in company with us, and bound to the same port.