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A Concise Natural History of East & West Florida
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Artikel-Nr:
9781565546134
Veröffentl:
1999
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.1999
Seiten:
316
Autor:
Bernard Romans
Gewicht:
463 g
Format:
217x141x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Bernard Romans was sent by the British government to America in 1755 as a civil engineer. He has been called a universal genius, distinguished not only as an engineer, but also as a surveyor, botanist, writer, and cartographer. His great and extensive map of the Floridas is one of the finest pieces of cartography of the region.
Covering everything from Acadians to YellowFever, Bernard Romans exhaustively addressed daily life in Florida and minutelydescribed its natural features-but he also did much more. He was copious inconveying the manners and customs of the native Chickasaw, Choctaw, and CreekIndians, including, despite their bad traits, one common outstanding virtue: hospitality. Romans also notes the habits and character of the colonists andcomments on the prevalence of drinking. By focusing his attention on even themost minute detail, Romans has given us a fascinating, true account of earlyFlorida.According to the Library of Congress, the variety of natural, aboriginal, historic, and miscellaneous information which (the book)graphically gives is far more original than a great many pioneerhistories. Originally published in 1775, this rare work was firstreprinted by Pelican in 1961.