{"product_id":"the-natures-of-john-and-william-bartram-two-pioneering-naturalists-father-and-son-in-the-wilderness-of-eighteenthcen-tury-america-9780679781189","title":"The Natures of John and William Bartram: Two Pioneering Naturalists, Father and Son, in the Wilderness of Eighteenth-Cen tury America","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Natures of John and William Bartram: Two Pioneering Naturalists, Father and Son, in the Wilderness of Eighteenth-Cen tury America\u003c\/strong\u003e by Slaughter, Thomas P.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780679781189.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\n--Boston Globe\n\nJohn 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.\n\nAs 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.\n\n\"A fascinating page-turner that should not be missed. \"\n--Michael Kammen, Cornell University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45251876257845,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679781188","price":91.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679781189_f173b0c8-ca8c-411c-ac82-cf022f13737b.jpg?v=1779917725","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-natures-of-john-and-william-bartram-two-pioneering-naturalists-father-and-son-in-the-wilderness-of-eighteenthcen-tury-america-9780679781189","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}