Voyage Into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760-1840 by Barbara Maria Stafford

Voyage Into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760-1840

Barbara Maria Stafford

650 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

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By examining the popular, multi-national illustrated narratives and atlases of the period, the book relates the voyagers' attentive, firsthand mode of seeing and precise copying of the enduring and the ephemeral features of the environment (before...

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