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The tropics and the traveling gaze : India, landscape, and science, 1800-1856 /

"The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze considers the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India. It draws on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature to show the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the...

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Auteur principal: Arnold, David
Format: Printed Book
Publié: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2006.
Collection:Culture, place, and nature
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