Abstract
This book explores the heyday of travel writing about the natural world between 1768 and 1840. The starting point is the parallel occurrence of Cook’s Pacific voyages, the institutionalisation of natural history and the beginnings of scenic tourism in England. It traces the practices which rapidly succeeded this watershed, such as the global trade in plants, landscape aesthetics, the picturesque in Britain and romantic travel writing in Britain and Europe. Its main argument is that the main and lasting effect of these combined developments was the production of nature as a detached, abstract space, and it examines how the genre of travel writing had a central role in articulating and reproducing this space.KeywordsNatural WorldAbstract SpaceRailway CarriageSnow LeopardRepresentational SpaceThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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