Susan Scott Parrish. American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World. xvi + 321 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.) $49.95 (paper).

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Susan Scott Parrish. American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World. xvi + 321 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.) $49.95 (paper).

William Leach

https://doi.org/10.1086/512886

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Susan Scott Parrish. <i>American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World</i>. xvi + 321 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.) $49.95 (paper).

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