Travels and Other Writings
Subtitle: Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida... (Nature Library, Penguin)
Contributors: Ronald E. Latham (Introduction)
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: January 5, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780140170085
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Nature/Ecology; Description and travel; USA; Southern States; 1739-1823; Bartram, William; Journeys; Nature / General; Bartram, William,; Early works to 1800; Indians of North America; Travel
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.