Artist, writer, botanist, gardener, explorer, and ethnographer, William Bartram was the most significant American nature writer before Thoreau. This volume includes "Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida" (1791), as well as Bartram's report to his English patron, scientific and ethnographic papers, and extensive gathering of Bartram's beautiful drawings, many in full color, and an index, a glossary of flora and fauna, and a map.