The Time of the Knights of the Far Seas: Collector and Patron Jind?ich Vávra

Photographic accounts of a 19th-century collector's travels around the globeA naturalist, physician and noted collector, Jindrich Vávra (1831-87) gathered an impressive cache of photographs throughout the 19th century in Austria--including from two circumnavigations of the globe. This book makes available his extraordinary collection of images.