Visualizing Africa in nineteenth-century British travel accounts [
Examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing an analysis of the process by which this visual material was transformed into the illustrations in popular travel books
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge ,
c2009
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| Series: | Routledge research in travel writing
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Exploration and the production of travel pictures. The framed view of Africa ; The ideal of visual documentation ; Problematic picturing ; Africa captured in pictures
- 2. Illustrations of Africa take shape in Europe. Shared eye-witnessing ; Selection of imagery ; The inevitable transformation ; Coping with the unknown continent
- 3. Conclusion: Africa through western eyes