Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

by Daniela Bleichmar

An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old world and the new

From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a central role in shaping how people on both sides of the Atlantic understood and imaged the region we now know as Latin America. Nature provided incentives for exploration, commodities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300224028
• ISBN13: 9780300224023
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.3" x 11.3"