| Description |
xii, 279 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Europeans -- Travel -- Tropics.
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Travelers' writings, European.
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Scientific expeditions -- Tropics.
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Tropics -- Description and travel.
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Tropics -- In art.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Driver, Felix.
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Martins, Luciana de Lima, 1963-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0226164713 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226164721 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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