1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007472460403321

Autore

BIBLIOTECA COMUNALE AUGUSTA, Perugia

Titolo

Patrimonio cartografico antico della Biblioteca Augusta : sec. XV-XVI / a cura di Francesca De Meo, Giovanni De Santis,Dzintra Grinfelds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Perugia : ( Leader Offset, 1987 )

Descrizione fisica

147 p. : ill. ; 21 x 21 cm

Locazione

ILFGE

Collocazione

A-G 0306BIS

A-G 0306

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

La pubblic. è stata presentata in occasione della mostra Cimeli geografici della Biblioteca Augusta : sec. XV - XVI, 30 ott. - 21 nov., Perugia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966724003321

Autore

Perez Mejia Angela

Titolo

A geography of hard times : narratives about travel to South America, 1780-1849 / / Angela Perez Mejia ; translated by Dick Cluster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004

ISBN

9780791485453

0791485455

9781423739401

142373940X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Disciplina

918.042

Soggetti

Travelers' writings, European - History and criticism

Visitors, Foreign - Latin America - History - 18th century

Visitors, Foreign - Latin America - History - 19th century

Visitors, Foreign - Latin America - Attitudes

Andes Region Description and travel

Andes Region Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""A GEOGRAPHY OF HARD TIMES""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: THE SCHOLAR AND THE BARON: VOYAGE OF THE EXACT SCIENCES""; ""Introduction to Part I""; ""1. Mutis, or The Trap of Mutisia Clematis""; ""2. Humboldt: The Silences and Complicities of Cartography""; ""PART II: THE DAUGHTER OF THE EAST AND THE PARIAH: VOYAGE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES""; ""Introduction to Part II""; ""3. Graham: The White Daughter of the East, or A Foreigner in Indomitable Lands""; ""4. Tristán, or The Incendiary Geography of a Pilgrim Pariah""; ""Epilogue""

Sommario/riassunto

This fascinating glimpse into South America's past focuses on the works of four European voyagers who came to South America and left a legacy of travel writing in their wake: José Celestino Mutis, a Spanish botanist and doctor; Alexander von Humboldt, a German geographer; Maria Graham, a British historian; and Flora Tristán, a French feminist



and labor activist whose father was Peruvian. Each took on his or her voyage as a personal endeavor, and collectively their travels covered the Andes from its northern traces in Venezuela to the southern heights of Chile and Arequipa. Their writing contributed to the construction of a complex map of the Andes in which many levels of physical and social geography may be read. By analyzing the travelers' narratives, illustrations, and maps, Ángela Pérez-Mejía unravels the rich complexities of the colonial travel experience, explores its impact on both the object of description and the traveler's subjectivity, and the collective readership seeking a discourse of nationhood.