Today it’s just a short drive from Travellers Rest to The Hermitage, the opulent plantation home and final resting place of President Jackson and First Lady Rachel.
When the repast was over, " Tell me, " said the hermit, by what chance thou hast been brought hither; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of this wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.
Now, imagine how interesting it would be if you got a rare window into that secretive hermit kingdom of around 25 million people that sits across the northern border of South Korea.
In a history of botany in England, the author Richard Pulteney in 1790 calls Dillenius as a " recluse" , described by a correspondent once as " busy in painting fungi" .