Table of Contents: Visualizing Africa in nineteenth-century British travel accounts

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Koivunen, Leila.
Format:	Electronic
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, c2009.
Series:	Routledge research in travel writing ; 2.
Subjects:	Illustration of books > 19th century. > Great Britain Travelers' writings, English > History and criticism > Africa. ART > Printmaking. > Techniques DESIGN > General. > Graphic Arts Africa > Description and travel. Africa > Discovery and exploration.
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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.