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Product Description: When Ferdinand Magellan set out to circumnavigate the globe in 1519, he wasnât able to bring a digital camera or a smartphone with him. Yet, as the eagerly awaited images from the Mars rover prove, modern exploration is inconceivable without photography...read more
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9781780231006 | Reaktion Books, July 15, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: When Ferdinand Magellan set out to circumnavigate the globe in 1519, he wasnât able to bring a digital camera or a smartphone with him.
Product Description: Memories of a Lost World: Travels through the Magic Lantern takes you on a fascinating journey back through time to a pre-globalised world where regional customs and national cultures were as distinctive as they were diverse. From the bustling streets of Victorian London and the ruins of ancient Egypt to the temples of Japan and the tribesmen of New Guinea, this publication explores the world through a captivating collection of over 800 magic lantern slide images...read more
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9781906863074 | Carlton Books Ltd, April 15, 2012, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Memories of a Lost World: Travels through the Magic Lantern takes you on a fascinating journey back through time to a pre-globalised world where regional customs and national cultures were as distinctive as they were diverse.
Product Description: For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover. The age of exploration was supposedly dead. New Spaces of Exploration challenges this assumption. Focusing specifically on exploration in the twentieth century, the authors demonstrate how new technologies and changing geopolitical configurations have ensured that exploration has remained a key feature of our rapidly globalizing world...read more
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9781848850163 | Tauris Academic Studies, January 15, 2010, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover.
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9781848850170 | Tauris Academic Studies, January 15, 2010, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover.
Product Description: The advent of photography opened new worlds to 19th-century viewers, who became able to visualize themselves, their immediate surroundings, their communities, and the world beyond. The geographical imaginationâthe ability to know the world and situate oneself in space and timeâfostered the expectations and applications of photographic technologies, and photographic technologies expresses the form and reach of the geographical imagination...read more
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9781860647512 | Tauris Academic Studies, April 19, 2003, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The advent of photography opened new worlds to 19th-century viewers, who became able to visualize themselves, their immediate surroundings, their communities, and the world beyond.
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9781860647529 | Tauris Academic Studies, April 19, 2003, cover price $39.00
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9780898383768 | Kluwer Academic Pub, July 1, 1988, cover price $349.00
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9780827204447 | Chalice Pr, September 1, 1984, cover price $6.99
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