Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's ""Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands"" was a major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his ""Hortus Britanno-Americanus"", which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil. Catesby's ""Natural History"" exerted an impotant influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the 18th century. Inspired by a major travelling exhibition of Catesby's watercolour drawings from the Royal Library, this interdisciplinary collection considers Mark Catesby's endeavours as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned.
| ISBN: | 9780807847626 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 1999 |
| Author: | Margaret Beck Pritchard |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 296 pages |
| Series: | Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press |
| Genres: |
Nature and the natural world: general interest |
Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's ""Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands"" was a major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his ""Hortus Britanno-Americanus"", which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil. Catesby's ""Natural History"" exerted an impotant influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the 18th century. Inspired by a major travelling exhibition of Catesby's watercolour drawings from the Royal Library, this interdisciplinary collection considers Mark Catesby's endeavours as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned.
Empire's Nature features in the following genres: Nature and the natural world: general interest
Empire's Nature is available in Paperback
Empire's Nature was written by Margaret Beck Pritchard and published by The University of North Carolina Press
Empire's Nature has 296 pages