Two New Books on William Bartram

Coming September

More than two centuries have passed since the publication of William Bartram’s Travels in 1791, and his text continues to ignite the imagination of southerners who love nature. Mercer University Press is pleased to announce these forthcoming titles.

Bartram’s Living Legacy: the Travels and the Nature of the South reprints Bartram’s classic work alongside essays acknowledging the debt southern nature writers owe the man called the “South’s Thoreau.” The anthology includes contributions from sixteen of the South’s finest nature writers: Bill Belleville, Kathryn Braund, Dixon Bynum, Christopher Camuto, Thomas Rain Crowe, Dorinda Dallmeyer, Doug Davis, Jan DeBlieu, Whit Gibbons, Thomas Hallock, John Lane, Drew Lanham, Roger Pinckney, Janisse Ray, Matt Smith, and Gerald Thurmond, strikingly illustrated with Bartram-inspired landscape paintings by Philip Juras.

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The Flower Seeker is an epic poem that follows the young William Bartram on his journey in the American South and during his old age in his father’s gardens. It is truly a southern Odyssey, using techniques of fiction and poetry to get deeply inside one of the most remarkable men ever to strap on a pair of boots in America. Philip Lee Williams is the author of 14 published books and has written about the natural world most of his career and taught nature writing at the University of Georgia.

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Upcoming Events Celebrating the Bartram Legacy

Sunday, September 5, 2 p.m.
Phil Williams, John Lane, and Dorinda Dallmeyer at the Decatur Book Festival, Decatur Conference Center Stage (Ballroom B). Readings, a discussion of William Bartram, and book signing. For more information, visit the Decatur Book Festival website: www.decaturbookfestival.com/2010/index.php

Saturday, September 11, 12-4 p.m.
"Shoals of Time" book launch party and fundraiser for the Georgia River Network and the Ogeechee Riverkeeper. At the historic Ogeechee River Mill, Mayfield, Georgia. Bring a picnic lunch, enjoy paddling the Ogeechee River, tour the historic grist mill in the heart of Bartram Country. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Essayists attending include Dorinda Dallmeyer, Phil Williams, Janisse Ray, Roger Pinckney, John Lane, Thomas Rain Crowe, Gerald Thurmond, Philip Juras, Dixon Bynum, Doug Davis, Thomas Hallock, and Whit Gibbons. Cost: $15 per person, kids 12 and under free. Includes 1 year membership to Georgia River Network and Ogeechee Riverkeeper. Registration, directions, and more on the Georgia River Network website: http://www.garivers.org/events/shoalevent.html

Friday, September 24, 6-8 p.m.
Art exhibition, readings, book signing, and reception at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, Georgia. Phil Williams reads from "The Flower Seeker" and Dorinda Dallmeyer from "Bartram's Living Legacy." Philip Juras paintings on exhibit from September 24 until October 16. For more information, visit the OCAF website at www.ocaf.com or call (706) 769- 4565

Monday, October 11, 7:30 p.m.
Reading by Phil Williams and Dorinda Dallmeyer, with presentation on Bartram-inspired landscapes by Philip Juras. Sponsored by the Ocmulgee Audubon Society, in the auditorium of the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA.

March 3, 2011
"Bartram Speak: A Workshop for Southern Nature Writers," led by Georgia author Janisse Ray. For more information, email wildfire1491@yahoo.com.

March 4, 2011
“William Bartram’s Georgia: Art and Science on the Southern Frontier.” Day-long conference held at the Jepson Center, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA. Simultaneous with the Philip Juras exhibition also at the Telfair Museum

For more information, please contact Dorinda Dallmeyer: dorinda@bartramproject.com

Anthony Shoals, Broad River, Georgia, 2009, by Philip Juras