This study provides the first sustained analysis of the process by which images of Africa were transformed into the illustrations of the continent that appeared in nineteenth-century European travel books. Koivunen examines the actual production process of images and the books in which they were published in order to demonstrate how, why, and by whom the images were manipulated.

Examines the world's greatest literature about empires and imperialism, including more than 200 entries on writers, classic works, themes, and concepts.

Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Essays on writers of tour memoirs, which were the precursors of contemporary guidebooks, including accounts by women travelers. The distinction between traveler and tourist played a part in the development of the literature of travel. Discusses the impact of technology on the travel industry, including advancements in ocean travel and the railway. These nineteenth-century British travel writers provided ethnographic or scientific data of great use to scholars.