The Baltic through European Eyes in the Nineteenth Century: A Contribution to Regional History
Journal: Revue d histoire nordique
Year: 2012

While in the past, travelling had been limited to a limited number of explorers for political, technological and cultural reasons, in the nineteenth century, it increasingly tended to be a favoured, though not entirely democratized, pastime for wealthy or subsidized European travellers fascinated by the discovery of remote places.Far from describing the world as a radical novelty, they conveyed images, discourses, and aesthetic and ideological codes that shaped their sensory experiences and the