William Bartram’s Travels Illustrated Using AI

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read and re-read passages of William Bartram’s Travels. William Bartram was a botanist who traveled through Southeastern North America, especially Georgia and Florida during 1775 and 1776. He traveled there with his father 10 years earlier, but he wrote his book about his later journey without his father. He was from Pennsylvania. His detailed descriptions of the landscapes, people, plants, animals, and geology fascinate many naturalists. Most other accounts from this time period were written by people who were not scientists, and their descriptions aren’t nearly as good. I simply cut and pasted passages from Travels into Google’s new AI Create feature to generate the following images. I used to imagine what landscapes looked like back then before it was ruined by industrial and mass agricultural development. Now, this amazing technology brings them to life. I’m going to continue doing this in my next blog entries, using descriptions of early…

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