Wanderjahre
Subtitle: años de viaje en el trópico : colección de viajeros Juan Kalb
By: Pablo Antonio Castro López, Jorge Lopera Gómez, Andrés Vélez Posada
Contributors: Vélez Posada, Jorge Andrés, author; Lopera Gómez, Jorge, author; Universidad EAFIT. Biblioteca Luis Echavarría Villegas
Publisher: Universidad EAFIT
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Medellín
Language: spa
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9789587204643
Subjects: Exhibitions; Library; Private libraries; Book collectors; Illustrated books; Collectors and collecting; Geography; Sources; Description and travel; History; Libraries; Travel
Other titles: Años de viaje en el trópico; Colección de viajeros Juan Kalb
Description: Juan Kalb, in the last years of his existence, managed to gather one of the most valuable collections of books and images of European travelers conserved in Colombia. It is, in its majority, comprised of first editions, who are complete and in a extraordinary state of conservation. "The exhibition presents for the first time, pieces obtained by Johann Friedrich Kalb (1928-2015) throughout many years dedicated to collecting. Known in Colombia as Juan Kalb, this Hamburg merchant came to the Americas in the early 1950's to devote himself to the coffee business. It is not fortuitous that Kalb came to the country at this time because, after the end of the II World War, an important process of restoration and creation of commercial ties with Latin American countries commenced in the newly constituted Federal Germany"--Page 16.
Notes: Published on the occassion of the exhibition "Wanderjahare: años de viaje en el tropico" held in the Sala de Patrimonio Documental, Biblioteca Luis Echavarría Villegas, Universidad EAFIT on October 31, 2017-February 28, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ser coleccionista / Juan Luis Mejía Arango; title: Wanderjahre; title: Juan Kalb : líneas de lectura para una colección; title: El coleccionismo; title: Modalidades de viaje; title: El libro alemán; title: Del viaje filosófico a la expedición naturalista; title: Antropólogos alemanes y representación del nativo americano; title: Mapas y láminas : acumulación de la representación geográfica; title: La verticalidad tropical : de las tierras llanas a las montañas nevadas; title: El viaje, el conocimiento y los intereses comerciales; title: Libros de la Colección de viajeros Juan Kalb.