Title: Cadernos de viagens /
Authors: Kury, Lorelai Brilhante; Heizer, Alda
Date: 2018.
Publisher: Andrea Jakobsson Estúdio,
Physical description: 224 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
Language: Portuguese
LC classification: Q
Abstract: Organized by historian Lorelai Kury, the work contains the texts of 14 specialists who have been dedicated to the study of expedition travelers and Brazilian scientific culture for many years and who looked at the travel journals of 36 of them. There are more than 200 color reproductions collected in Brazil, in places such as the National Library and National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, and the Goeldi Museum in Pará. From abroad, institutions such as the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Natural History Museum in London, the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle and the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris, the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid, the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, among many others, have also provided images of their historic holdings.
Contents: Apresentaçao / Lorelai Kury -- Caspar Schmalkalden / Heloisa Meireles Gesteira -- Miguel Ciera & José Custodio de Sá Farías / Heloisa Meireles Gesteira -- Miguel Angelo Blasco / Heloisa Meireles Gesteira -- João Ângelo Brunelli & Antônio José Landi / Thomas A. Haddad -- Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander, Sydney Parkinson / Lorelai Kury -- Jeanne Baret & Philibert Commerson / Lorelai Kury -- Francisco José de Lacerda e Almeida & Antônio Pires da Silva Pontes Leme / Thomas A. S. Haddad -- Bento Sanches d'Orta & Francisco de Oliveira Barboza / Heloisa Meireles Gesteira -- José Simões de Carvalho / Thomas A. S. Haddad -- Francisco António de Sampaio / André Nogueira -- Antônio Corrêa de Lacerda / Nelson Sanjad -- Príncipe Maximiliano de Wied-Neuwied / Karen Macknow Lisboa -- Friedrich Sellow / Miriam Junghans -- Auguste de Saint-Hilaire / Lorelai Kury -- Johann Baptist von Spix e Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius / Karen Macknow Lisboa -- Ludwig Riedel / Karen Macknow Lisboa -- Charles Darwin / Luciana Martins -- Francisco Freire Alemão de Cisneiro / Lorelai Kury -- Alfred Russell Wallace / Luciana Martins -- Henry Walter Bates / Luciana Martins -- Richard Spruce / Luciana Martins -- John Caspar Branner / Maria Margaret Lopes & Drielli Peyerl -- Guilherme Schüch de Capanema / Silvia Figueirõa -- Jacques Huber / Nelson Sanjad -- Emilia Snethlage / Miriam Janghans -- Artur Neiva / Magali Romero Sá -- John Christopher Willis / Alda Heizer -- Bertha Maria Julia Lutz / Magali Romero Sá -- Heinrich Maximilian Hellmuth Sick / Magali Romero Sá -- Translation into English.
Subject headings (LCSH): Brazil--Description and travel.; Brazil--Discovery and exploration.; Brazil--Pictorial works.; Discoveries in geography.; Natural history--Brazil--Pictorial works.; Natural history--Brazil.; Scientific expeditions--Brazil--Pictorial works.; Scientific expeditions--Brazil.