Wampanoag Traveler: Being in Letters the Life and Times of Loranzo Newcomb American and Natural Historian
by: Brendan Galvin

Softcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 43 pages. A book-length poem, Wampanoag Traveler, is told from the point of view of one Loranzo Newcomb, a fictional eighteenth - century natural historian, gardener, lone wanderer, fabulist, and failed lover. The poem is arranged in fourteen sections that deal variously with such subjects as gardening, the mystical delirium that follows a poisonous snakebite, failed love, hummingbirds and skunks, and the young Newcomb's apprenticeship to a "birdmaster" who bears a close resemblance to Audubon. Clean, like new.