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Author Koivunen, Leila.

Title Visualizing Africa in nineteenth-century British travel accounts / Leila Koivunen.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 351 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Routledge research in travel writing ; 2
Routledge research in travel writing ; 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-344) and index.
Contents Exploration and the production of travel pictures. The framed view of Africa ; The ideal of visual documentation ; Problematic picturing ; Africa captured in pictures -- Illustrations of Africa take shape in Europe. Shared eye-witnessing ; Selection of imagery ; The inevitable transformation ; Coping with the unknown continent -- Conclusion: Africa through western eyes.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Illustration of books -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Illustration of books.
Great Britain.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Travelers' writings, English -- Africa -- History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, English.
Africa.
Africa -- Description and travel.
Africa -- Discovery and exploration.
Discoveries in geography.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Koivunen, Leila. Visualizing Africa in nineteenth-century British travel accounts. New York : Routledge, ©2009 9780415990011 0415990017 (DLC) 2008027763 (OCoLC)233591835
ISBN 0203884639 (electronic book)
9780203884638 (electronic book)
0415990017 (hardback)
9780415990011 (hardback)