William Bartram’s Visual Wonders
The Drawings of an American Naturalist
Winner, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia 2024 Literary Award for Nonfiction
Pennsylvania naturalist William Bartram (1739–1823) is best known as the author of a travelogue describing his botanizing journey through the American South in the late eighteenth century. Writing was not, however, Bartram’s only or even preferred method of recording the natural ...
