Nature
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?- Created by: Beth Dunn-Wilson
- Created on: 02-06-13 17:54
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- Nature
- Eden / wilderness
- Rousseau The Dream. Represents a wilderness, a wild jungle out of reach of Europeans. He had never been and painted it from descriptions by explorers: animals, jungles, dark and mysterious.
- Explorers: Mungo Park, David Livingstone created an image of Africa as paradise and wilderness. Wilderness was disappearing in Eu and NA --. wanting to cling to ideas of open, untouched spaces: 'an untouched land, unaffected by humans, a virgin territory.'
- WRONG
- humans had been there for thousands of years. This was irrelevant to explorers-->
- animals
- land
- winlderness
- riches
- gold
- slaves
- diamonds
- humans had been there for thousands of years. This was irrelevant to explorers-->
- WRONG
- Mungo park
- charting the Niger River. Legends of gold. When he succeeded he was greeted as a hero. Book Travels of Africa: dark, heroic.
- Henty 1800s: colonial quests as heroic.
- charting the Niger River. Legends of gold. When he succeeded he was greeted as a hero. Book Travels of Africa: dark, heroic.
- Burton: detailed descriptions of a romanticised Africa.
- Livingstone
- detailed descriptions. Very romantic. Forests, lakes, rivers. Contrasted with people's assumptions of Africa; it was not dry, and was fruitful.
- Left out anything the public at home might not find attractive, as he needed funding for his exploits.
- slaves, disease, hostile tribes, dissentry.
- Left out anything the public at home might not find attractive, as he needed funding for his exploits.
- detailed descriptions. Very romantic. Forests, lakes, rivers. Contrasted with people's assumptions of Africa; it was not dry, and was fruitful.
- Roosevelt
- books, hunts, museums, introduction of monuments and reserves. Put conservation on to the policy agenda for America, and therefore the wider world.
- destruction vs protection.
- books, hunts, museums, introduction of monuments and reserves. Put conservation on to the policy agenda for America, and therefore the wider world.
- Development of the Code of Conduct for hunting
- Grzimek: Maasai had no place in the Serenghetti.People did not fit in to conservation.
- Eden / wilderness
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