In her study of the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended Great Britain's amassing of wild... Læs mere
Examines the shift away from the cult of the sublime that characterized the early part of the nineteenth century to the less reverential perspective from which the Victorians regarded mountain landscapes.
Provides a fresh insight into Stevenson's multi-voiced South Seas fiction, as well as into the particulars and complications of living within a newly established site of Empire.