{"product_id":"natures-of-john-and-william-bartram","title":"Natures of John and William Bartram","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNatures of John and William Bartram\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eThomas Slaughter\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780679430452\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1996\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e304\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003eJohn 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. \u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating page-turner that should not be missed.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Michael Kammen, Cornell University\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Natures of John and William Bartram | Thomas Slaughter | Hardcover | 9780679430452 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks H 1748284","offer_id":48856089821336,"sku":"1748284","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91f43pE3XjL.jpg?v=1775575054","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/natures-of-john-and-william-bartram","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}