Prologue : explorer, naturalist, and artist
Plant hunting and the seed trade
The merchant's apprentice
Cape Fear and competition
Travels in Florida with the king's botanist
Travels : revisiting old haunts and discovering new ones
Encounters and observations
Describing, classifying, and naming
American science comes of age : ornithology
American science comes of age : entomology
Following in Bartram's footsteps
Epilogue : contentment and serenity.
