The Natures of John and William Bartram Thomas P. Slaughter "An outstanding work of scholarship that tells us much about a natural world that no longer exists but that our age should know."--Philadelphia Inquirer "Slaughter has broken the confines of ordinary narrative history. . . . Books about the business of fatherhood and the trials of sonhood are very rare, and this is a fine one."--Boston Globe "A fascinating page-turner that should not be missed."--Michael Kammen, Cornell University John Bartram (1699-1777), the first native-born American to devote his entire life to the...