Visual voyages : images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin /
From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a central role in shaping how people on both sides of the Atlantic understood and imaged the region we now know as Latin America. Nature provided incentives for e...
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New Haven : [San Marino] :
Yale University Press ; In association with the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens,
[2017]
New Haven : Yale University Press in association with The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, [2017] |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Catherine Hess
- Introduction
- Rewriting the book of nature
- The value of nature
- Collecting: from wonder to order
- New landscapes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Illustration credits