Tropical visions in an age of empire / 
edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. 
 - xii, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. 
<br/><br/> Covering a wide range of tropical sites in the Pacific, South Asia, West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, the book will appeal to a broad readership: scholars of postcolonial studies, art history, literature, imperial history, history of science, geography, and anthropology. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226164713 9780226164717 0226164721 9780226164724 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005001424 
<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
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>G905  / .T75 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>910.913