Description
A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery.
Table of Contents
Part II Volume 8: South America S. S. Hill, Travels in Peru and Mexico (1860); Charles Daniel Dance, Recollection of Four Years in Venezuela (1876); Henry W. Bates, The Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863); Frederick A. Ober, Camps in the Caribbees. The Adventures of a Naturalist in the Lesser Antilles (1880); Charles Barrington-Brown, Canoe and Camp Life in British Guiana (1877); Henry Kirke, Twenty-five Years in British Guiana (1898); Richard F. Burton, Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: with an Account of the Gold and Diamond Mines (1869); Louis Agassiz, A Journey in Brazil by Professor and Mrs. Louis Agassiz (1868)
