Henry Smeathman, the Flycatcher: Natural History, Slavery, and Empire in the Late Eighteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781786940537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 336 str.

Deirdre Coleman

Opis

This book enriches our understanding of Romanticism and colonialism by telling the story of Henry Smeathman (1742-86), natural historian and sentimental traveller whose extraordinary life in West Africa and the West Indies provides us with vivid, eye-witness accounts of Atlantic slavery, the Middle Passage, and the difficulties of collecting in the tropics.