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Close encounters in the wilderness
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Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers by Peter Raby
Chatto, pounds 20
To travel hopefully as a naturalist in the Victorian era was to
arrive. Regardless of destinations, it was chance enounters in the
wilderness that fuelled the collective fantasies of the age:
fabulous new species; savages, Noble and grotesque; gruelling
obstacles against which the superior moral fibre of the European
races could be tested. But as Peter Raby demonstrates in this
fascinating and thoughtful s...
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