Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

This illustrated book by Daniela Bleichmar *05 reveals that people in the American and Europe, from Christopher Columbus to Charles Darwin, principally envisioned Latin America in terms of its natural world. In Visual Voyages (Yale University Press), Bleichmar argues that these images were not only works of art but also instruments for the production of knowledge with scientific, social, and political repercussions.