A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural

Richly illustrated 1996 collection on how Pacific plants and peoples were depicted by European explorers.

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 th

This book shows the history of charts and nautical maps from the earliest known examples to the one used in the Twentieth Century, with a special focus on the m

The contrast between the temperate and the tropical is one of the most enduring themes in the history of the Western geographical imagination. Caught between th