{"product_id":"empires-nature-mark-catesbys-new-world-vision-9780807847626","title":"Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Amy R. W. Meyers | Margaret Beck Pritchard\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Individual Artists - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompleted in 1747, Mark Catesby's \u003ci\u003eNatural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands\u003c\/i\u003e was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his \u003ci\u003eHortus Britanno-Americanus\u003c\/i\u003e (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's \u003ci\u003eNatural History\u003c\/i\u003e exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century.\u003cbr\u003eInspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors 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 -- particularly as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise.\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors are David R. Brigham, Joyce E. Chaplin, Mark Laird, Amy R. W. Meyers, Therese O'Malley, and Margaret Beck Pritchard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Omohundro Institute and Unc Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591318421655,"sku":"9780807847626","price":5753.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807847626.webp?v=1774972435","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/empires-nature-mark-catesbys-new-world-vision-9780807847626","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}