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    A Celebration of John and William Bartram: In Philadelphia and Florida
    A Celebration of John and William Bartram: In Philadelphia and Florida
    A Celebration of John and William Bartram: In Philadelphia and Florida
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    A Celebration of John and William Bartram: In Philadelphia and Florida

    By Thomas Peter Bennett

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    The Bartram 300, in 1999, will celebrate the birth of America''s first great naturalist and conservationist, John Bartram. His scientific travels in Pennsylvania, New York and throughout Florida, with his son William, are now scientific and mythic legend. William''s return to Florida in 1771, and later publication of Travels, concluded the Bartram saga. The Bartrams awakened the scientific and literary world to America''s environmental beauty and natural uniqueness. The Bartrams'' history and their accomplishments continue to be globally celebrated. A Celebration of the Bartrams is a poetic interpretation of the travels of John and William Bartram. It includes the physical and spiritual retracing, by the author of the Bartram''s environmental travelsin Florida and Philadelphia. Originally published as a 200th celebration of Travels, its poems have had many readings. ''John Bartram''s House'''' was read at the 1993 Centennial celebration and Bartram family reunion at historic Bartram''s garden in Philadelphia and published in the proceedings. ''''Flight of Savanna Cranes'''' received honorable mention, The John David Johnson Memorial Poetry Awards of Poet ''''93. ''''Gopher'''' appeared in The Annual Anthology of the South Florida Poetry Institute, 1992-1993.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 19, 1999
    ISBN9781420897869
    A Celebration of John and William Bartram: In Philadelphia and Florida
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    Thomas Peter Bennett

    Thomas Peter Bennett, a native Floridian, has recently published poems in Poetalk. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine and several chapbooks, including Aquarius and Tidemarks. William Bartram''s Travels fascinated Bennett in fourth grade Florida history classes. As President of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from 1976-1986, he explored John and William''s influence on the Academy and its 1817 expedition to Florida. He reported his findings on the Bartram''s legacy at the Bartram 300 Symposium in Philadelphia in 1999. Bennett is Courtesy Professor, Florida Museum of Natural History, at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

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      A Celebration of John and William Bartram - Thomas Peter Bennett

      © 2005 Thomas Peter Bennett. All Rights Reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 11/07/05

      ISBN: 978-1-4208-9786-9 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4208-6203-4 (sc)

      Contents

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      CARLYLE TO EMERSON

      TRAVELS -1791, First Printing-

      PUCPUGGY

      ON BARTRAM’S TRAIL BY CAR IN ALACHUA COUNTY

      GOPHER

      FLIGHT OF SAVANNA CRANES

      COLCLOUGH HILLS IS NOW A THICKET

      KANAPAHA BOTANICAL GARDENS

      ANHINGA

      BIVANS ARM IS NOW BIVENS ARM

      JOHN BARTRAM’S HOUSE IN PHILADELPHIA WHERE WILLIAM WROTE TRAVELS

      FRANKLINIA ALTAMAHA

      IMMEASURABLY OLD AND FUTURE BIBLICAL ARTICLE

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      The year 1991 marked the 200th anniversary of William Bartram’s publication of his Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The description of his four-year solitary journey of exploration was the first comprehensive work on American natural history. It became an immediate classic of new visions of nature.

      William derived his interest in natural history from his father, John Bartram (1699-1777), America’s foremost botanist for half a century. From childhood, William (1739-1823) accompanied his father on collecting trips. These were

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