Visions of empire : voyages, botany, and representations of nature / edited by David Philip Miller and Peter Hanns Reill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, David Philip.

Reill, Peter Hanns.

University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history.

Scientific expeditions.

Botany.

Botany, Economic.

Ethnology--Oceania.

Ethnology.

Oceania.

Physical Description:

xix, 370 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Summary:

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

Notes:

"Published in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521483034

OCLC:

32509011