Abstract
This paper examines two natural history books: Travels (short title), botanist William Bartram’s only book, published in 1791 and Alexander Wilson’s nine-volume American Ornithology (1808-1814). It argues that both books, using Buffon’s degeneration theory as leverage, offer descriptions of nonhuman animals that help delineate the country’s political identity.
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