Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century - Hardcover

by Adriana Craciun (Editor), Mary Terrall (Editor)

Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends.

Author Biography

Adriana Craciun is the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities at Boston University.
Mary Terrall is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.