The Travelers' World
Harry Liebersohn · 2006
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"In a narrative that transports the reader from the salons of Europe to the shores of Tahiti, Harry Liebersohn examines the transformation of global knowledge during the great age of scientific exploration. He moves beyond the traditional focus on British and French travelers to include Germans, Russians, and some Americans, as well as the Tahitian, Hawaiian, and other Pacific islanders they encountered. Germany gets special attention because its travelers epitomized the era's cosmopolitanism and its philosophers engaged most fully in a multicultural understanding of humanity."--Jacket.
First sentence: One of the travelers' main jobs was to collect plants for scientific use at home.
Book details
- Year
- 2006
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN
- 9780674027473
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