{"product_id":"the-natures-of-john-and-william-bartram-9780812219340","title":"The Natures of John and William Bartram","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Bartram (1699-1777), the first native-born American to devote his entire life to the study of nature, was an eminently practical man, a scientist devoted to the rigorous description of living things. Among his subjects was the Venus flytrap, along with hundreds of species of plants and animals, fully one quarter of all the plants identified and sent to Europe during the colonial period. His son William (1739-1823) was a pioneering naturalist who documented his travels through the Florida wilderness in prose and drawings that inspired a generation of Romantic poets. William's lyrical \u003ci\u003eTravels\u003c\/i\u003e is read today, while John's work is not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs he follows the Bartrams through their respective careers—and through the tenderness and disappointment of the father-son relationship—Thomas P. Slaughter examines the ways 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Natures of John and William Bartram\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas P. Slaughter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48188716155131,"sku":"9780812219340","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-natures-of-john-and-william-bartram-9780812219340","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}