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Pages: 292
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Whether considered a sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or the endangered site of environmental conflicts, the tropics are, Picturing Tropical Nature argu
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Pages: 300
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Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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"Picturing Tropical Nature reflects on the work of several nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Ru
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This book shows how Victorian naturalists transformed their encounters with South America into influential accounts of biological change.
An Eye for the Tropics
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Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origin
Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather
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Authors: Anne Collett
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This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as “tropical