Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers - Couverture rigide

Raby, Peter

 
9780701146139: Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers

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This is an account of the great burst of scientific exploration in the 19th century: the search for the North-West passage; the penetration of the Australian outback; and the hunt for the sources of the Nile, Niger, Amazon and Brahmaputra. There are the individual stories of personalities such as Charles Darwin, ALfred Wallace, Henry Bates and Richard Spruce, but the focal point of the book is how these journeys were linked to wider issues: the growth of knowledge; the spread of Empire; the image of the "wild"; and the great Victorian questions of the creation, origins and ascent of man.

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9780691048437: Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers

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ISBN 10 :  0691048436 ISBN 13 :  9780691048437
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1997
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