TY  - BOOK
AU  - Driver,Felix
AU  - Martins,Luciana
TI  - Tropical visions in an age of empire
SN  - 9780226164700 (electronic bk.)
AV  - G905 .T75 2005eb
U1  - 910/.913 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Europeans
KW  - Travel
KW  - Tropics
KW  - Travelers' writings, European
KW  - Scientific expeditions
KW  - Geography
KW  - Européens
KW  - Voyages
KW  - Régions tropicales
KW  - Écrits de voyageurs européens
KW  - Expéditions scientifiques
KW  - TRAVEL
KW  - Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Hikes & Walks
KW  - Budget
KW  - Special Interest
KW  - Ecotourism
KW  - Parks & Campgrounds
KW  - Reference
KW  - Road Travel
KW  - Adventure
KW  - Reisebericht
KW  - swd
KW  - Vorstellung
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - In art
KW  - Descriptions et voyages
KW  - Régions tropicales dans l'art
KW  - Tropen
KW  - Europa
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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