Tropical visions in an age of empire  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  2005. 
 - xii, 279 p., [8] p. of plates :  ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Europeans--Travel--Tropics.<br/>Travelers' writings, European.<br/>Scientific expeditions--Tropics.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Tropics--Description and travel.<br/>Tropics--In art.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>G905  / .T75 2005eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>910/.913