Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century by Craciun, Adriana

Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781487503673)

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Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century by Craciun, Adriana

Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century

$85.00
Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century by Craciun, Adriana

Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century

$85.00
Format: Hardcover
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Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends.

Author: Adriana Craciun
ISBN-10: 1487503679
ISBN-13: 9781487503673
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.00d
By Adriana Craciun
By Adriana Craciun
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Adriana Craciun is the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities at Boston University.
Mary Terrall is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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