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Artist, writer, botanist, gardener, naturalist, intrepid wilderness explorer, and self-styled āphilosophical pilgrim,ā William Bartram was an extraordinary figure in eighteenth-century American life. The first American to devote himself to what we would now call the environment, Bartram was the most significant American writer before Thoreau and a nature artist whoā¦
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William Bartram is the first great Native American naturalist.
His Travels recount his journeys through the American Southeast between 1773 and 1776, and contain unparalleled descriptions of the flora and fauna of the region, as well as his ethnographic studies of Native Americans there. The Library of America edition is top-notch.
From Patrick's list on trailblazing explorers in the Americas.
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