A Delicious Country
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A Delicious Country

Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson's 1700 Expedition

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A Delicious Country

Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson's 1700 Expedition

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In 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself. For reasons unknown, he soon undertook a two-month journey through the still-mysterious Carolina backcountry. His travels yielded A New Voyage to Carolina in 1709, one of the most significant early American travel narratives, rich with observations about the region's environment and Indigenous people. Lawson later helped found North Carolina's first two cities, Bath and New Bern; became the colonial surveyor general; contributed specimens to what is now the British Museum; and was killed as the first casualty of the Tuscarora War. Yet despite his great contributions and remarkable history, Lawson is little remembered, even in the Carolinas he documented. In 2014, Scott Huler made a surprising decision: to leave home and family for his own journey by foot and canoe, faithfully retracing Lawson's route through the Carolinas. This is the chronicle of that unlikely voyage, revealing what it's like to rediscover your own home. Combining a traveler's curiosity, a naturalist's keen observation, and a writer's wit, Huler draws our attention to people and places we might pass regularly but never really see. What he finds are surprising parallels between Lawson's time and our own, with the locals and their world poised along a knife-edge of change between a past they can't forget and a future they can't quite envision.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781469648293
Topic
Desarrollo personal
Subtopic
Viajes

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: The Best Country I Could Go To
  7. 1 : Spartina, Mon Amour
  8. 2 : Coffee with the Huguenots
  9. 3 : The Corps’s Work Is Never Done
  10. 4 : The Most Amazing Prospect
  11. 5 : The Anthropocene and the Catawba
  12. 6 : The Paths and the Rivers
  13. 7 : The Hanging Tree
  14. 8 : A Delicious Country
  15. 9 : Losing the Way
  16. 10 : A Bed in Bath, and Beyond
  17. 11 : Not to Amuse My Readers Any Longer
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index