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Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters. By Sureka Davies

although written for a general audience literate in German. An interested reader without a specialist background will enjoy and learn from this book. Scholars will find it a convenient overview, especially so because only isolated, seldom-complete sets of the elusive source journals survive, mainly in major university libraries. The vivid and observant written descriptions in the nineteenth-century extracts compensate for the limited number of pictorial illustrations. An index assists access, while bibliographical lists identify the geographical journals and the articles from which the extracts were sourced. Most of the selections come from the German journals Das Ausland, Geographische Zeitschrift, Globus, Hertha and Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes’ Geographischer Anstalt. This book is the second in a series, Aus allen Weltteilen, intended as a geographical anthology of the nineteenth century. It follows a volume about the Arctic regions titled Die Arktis (Springer Verlag, 2016).