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From: Artforum
Date: 20060201
Author:Manning, Maurice
CREATURE COMFORTS TIMOTHY; OR, NOTES OF AN ABJECT REPTILE BY VERLYN KLINKENBORG NEW YORK: KNOPF. 192 PAGES. $17.
In 1851, Thomas Carlyle wrote to Ralph Waldo Emerson recommending William Bartram's Travels, noting that the book "has a wondrous kind of floundering eloquence in it; and has also grown immeasurably old." In 1789, just two years prior to the publication of Bartram's travelogue, an English curate, amateur naturalist, and less far-flung traveler named Gilbert White issued his equally floundering and eloquent book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Whereas Bartram ...
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