| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Contents |
Views and visions of the tropical world / Felix Driver, Luciana Martins -- "On the spot": traveling artists and the iconographic inventory of the world, 1769-1859 / Claudio Greppi -- The stimulations of travel: Humboldt's physiological construction of the tropics / Michael Dettelbach -- "The struggle for luxuriance": William Burchell collects tropical nature / Luciana Martins, Felix Driver -- Dominica and Tahiti: tropical islands compared / Peter Hulme -- Imagining the tropical colony: Henry Smeathman and the termites of Sierra Leone / Starr Douglas, Felix Driver -- Matthew Fontaine Maury's "sea of fire": hydrography, biogeography, and providence in the tropics / D. Graham Burnett -- Envisioning the tropics: Joseph Hooker in India and the Himalayas, 1848-1850 / David Arnold -- Eyeing Samoa: people, places, and spaces in photographs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Leonard Bell -- Returning fears: tropical disease and the metropolis / Rod Edmond -- Tropic and tropicality / Denis Cosgrove |
| Summary |
This volume of 11 illustrated essays from a wide range of disciplines explores images of the tropical world - paintings, maps, botanical drawings, diagrams, texts and photographs - produced by European and American travellers over the past three centuries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Europeans -- Travel -- Tropics
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Travelers' writings, European.
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Scientific expeditions -- Tropics
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TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
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TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks.
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TRAVEL -- Budget.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
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TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds.
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TRAVEL -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Road Travel.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Adventure.
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Europeans -- Travel
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Scientific expeditions
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Travel
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Travelers' writings, European
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Reisebericht
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Vorstellung
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| SUBJECT |
Tropics -- Description and travel
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Tropics -- In art.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138067
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| Subject |
Tropics
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Tropen
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Europa
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Driver, Felix
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Martins, Luciana de Lima, 1963-
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| ISBN |
9780226164700 |
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0226164705 |
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