This book includes writings from father and son naturalists John and William Bartram, who explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida in 1765, along with commentary and a modern record of the flora and fauna the Bartrams encountered.
Thomas Hallock, associate professor of English at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg is the author of From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of National Literature, 1749-1826. Richard Franz is emeritus scientist at the Florida Museum of Natural History and coeditor of Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida: Volume IV, Invertebrates.
