Describing Early America(English, Paperback, Regis Pamela)

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Describing Early America(English, Paperback, Regis Pamela) is written by Regis Pamela and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0812216865 (ISBN 10) and 9780812216868 (ISBN 13).

Describing Early America is a study of William Bartram's Travels, Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, and J. Hector St. John de CrEvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer that situates them within two important intellectual traditions: the literature of travel and the science of natural history. Pamela Regis contends that the travel genre provided the narrative framework on which these texts were built, but that natural history offered much more: a way of looking at the world, a way of describing what the authors saw, and an overarching scheme in which to fit what they had seen.