Visualizing Africa in nineteenth-century British travel accounts
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
c2009.
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| Series: | Routledge research in travel writing ;
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Table of 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.