Imagining the Atacama Desert : A Five-Hundred-Year Journey of Discovery /

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"Widely regarded as the driest place on earth, the seemingly desolate Atacama Desert of Chile is a place steeped in intrigue and haunted by collective memories. This book, based on archival research and the author's personal field work, brings together the works of geographers, historians,...

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Main Author: Francaviglia, Richard V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Physical geography.
Discoveries in geography.
Civilization.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Geographie physique > Chili > Atacama, Desert d'.
Physical geography > Chile > Atacama Desert.
Chile > Atacama Desert.
Atacama, Desert d' (Chili) > Civilisation.
Atacama, Desert d' (Chili) > Decouverte et exploration.
Atacama Desert (Chile) > Civilization.
Atacama Desert (Chile) > Discovery and exploration.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "A desert picture of great beauty" : an introduction to the Atacama Desert
  • "El gran despoblado" : early narratives and images of empire building, ca. 1530-1700
  • "The great desert of Atacama" : the dawn of science, ca. 1700-1865
  • "A centre of enterprise ... and civilisation" : transforming the Atacama Desert, ca. 1865-1945
  • "A playground for scientists and explorers" : the Atacama as exceptional, ca. 1945 to the present
  • "Knowledge of the territory" : Atacama discoveries in personal perspective.

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