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A Geography of Hard Times: Narratives about Travel to South America, 1780-1849

A Geography of Hard Times: Narratives about Travel to South America, 1780-1849

Cluster, Dick
Pérez-Mejía, Ángela

Hardcover

Series: Suny Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Literary CriticismGeneral Latin American HistorySouth America

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ISBN10: 0791460134
ISBN13: 9780791460139
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Apr 8 2004
Pages: 179
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

Unravels the rich complexities of the colonial travel experience.

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.

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