| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.1

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Byrd's Line: A Natural History. By Stephen C. Ausband. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002. ix + 187 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth $22.95.

Virginian William Byrd II (1674–1744) was among the most colorful, talented, and interesting American colonials. A figure of exquisite contradictions, Byrd was both consummate aristocrat and bawdy raconteur: a man for whom a single day might include exercising for health, reading in Latin and Greek, saying prayers, lobbying politicians, entertaining prostitutes, and bandying with his wife. Byrd was also an accomplished naturalist whose detailed observations of early eighteenth-century American wilderness are valuable contributions to the environmental—as well as the literary—history of the age. Of primary importance are the two remarkable accounts Byrd kept of his 1728 wilderness journey to survey the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina: The History of the Dividing Line ... and The Secret History of the Line.

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