Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts

London: Routledge, 2011. FIrst Paperback Edition. Octavo in blue wraps; 351 pp: illustrations (b&w), index; 23 cm. Near fine(+); wraps smooth and glossy, near imperceptible scratches to back wrap; pages crisp and clean; binding tight. Paperback. ISBN: 9780415699624

This study provides the first sustained analysis of the process by which images of Africa were transformed into the illustrations of the continent that appeared in nineteenth-century European travel books. Koivunen examines the actual production process of images and the books in which they were published in order to demonstrate how, why, and by whom the images were manipulated. | Contents: Introduction Part 1: Exploration and the Production of Travel Pictures 1. The Framed View of Africa 2. The Ideal of Visual Documentation 3. Problematic Picturing 4. Africa Captured in Pictures Part 2: Illustrations of Africa Take Shape in Europe 5. Shared Eye-Witnessing 6. Selection of Imagery 7. The Inevitable Transformation 8. Coping with the Unknown Continent. Conclusion: Africa through Western Eyes. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index.