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☙ Nouvelle Géographie Universelle – Océans et Terres Océaniques
1889 - Élisée Reclus
Élisée Reclus's Nouvelle Géographie Universelle is one of the most ambitious intellectual enterprises of the 19th century. Published by the Librairie Hachette in 19 volumes between 1876 and 1894, this colossal work represents the synthesis of an entire life devoted to the study... ☞ Read more
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☙ Nouvelle Géographie Universelle – Océans et Terres Océaniques
✑ Élisée Reclus
NOUVELLE GÉOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE — LA TERRE ET LES HOMMES. OCÉANS ET TERRES OCÉANIQUES.
Élisée Reclus's Nouvelle Géographie Universelle is one of the most ambitious intellectual enterprises of the 19th century. Published by the Librairie Hachette in 19 volumes between 1876 and 1894, this colossal work represents the synthesis of an entire life devoted to the study of the Earth and human societies. Élisée Reclus (1830–1905), geographer, traveller and anarchist thinker, deploys within it a vision at once scientific and humanist of the world, integrating physical, human, economic and political geography into a narrative of unprecedented scope. The volume devoted to Oceans and Oceanic Lands, published in 1889, deals with the maritime and insular spaces of the globe — Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic — as well as the archipelagos, islands and emergent lands that punctuate them. At a time when ocean exploration was still at its height and the great colonial powers were competing for the last available territories, this volume constituted a geographical synthesis of burning contemporary relevance. It remains today a reference document for the history of geography and marine sciences.
Why add it to your collection?
- A monumental volume from the greatest geographical work of the 19th century, written by Élisée Reclus, towering figure of modern geography and visionary anarchist thinker, whose work remains a universal reference
- The volume devoted to Oceans and Oceanic Lands is one of the rarest and most sought-after in the series, dealing with island and maritime territories that fascinated readers of the age of great explorations and colonisation
- A work abundantly illustrated with maps, engravings and geographical figures of remarkable precision and beauty for the period, constituting in itself a visual atlas of great documentary and aesthetic value
- An irreplaceable intellectual and scientific testimony to how the late 19th century conceived, described and classified the oceanic world, at the zenith of French positivist geography
- A centrepiece for any collection devoted to geography, natural sciences, the history of cartography or the social and political thought of the Belle Époque
Description
Élisée Reclus and the Nouvelle Géographie Universelle Élisée Reclus (1830–1905) is one of the most singular and admirable figures of the 19th-century intellectual world. A geographer by training and vocation, he was also a committed anarchist militant, exiled after the Paris Commune, who conceived geography not as a mere descriptive science but as a tool for understanding and transforming the world. The Nouvelle Géographie Universelle, published in 19 volumes between 1876 and 1894, is his masterwork. It earned him international recognition and the Tévère Prize of the Société de Géographie de Paris. By its scope, rigour and the beauty of its prose, it remains one of the great achievements of world geographical thought.
Contents of the Volume: Oceans and Oceanic Lands This volume is devoted to the aquatic and insular spaces of the globe. It deals successively with the great oceans — their dimensions, depths, currents, fauna and flora — then with the lands that inhabit them: volcanic and coral islands, tropical archipelagos, austral and polar lands. Reclus describes with precision the island populations, their ways of life, their languages and their social organisations, while integrating the most recent data from nascent oceanography. Contemporary scientific expeditions — notably those of the Challenger — are extensively cited and synthesised. The political dimension is not absent: Reclus observes with his customary critical eye the effects of colonisation on Oceanian peoples.
Illustration and Cartography Like the rest of the series, this volume is richly illustrated with original maps, woodcut engravings depicting landscapes, fauna, flora and populations, as well as geographical and bathymetric figures. These illustrations, produced by the finest engravers of the Hachette house, constitute an iconographic corpus of considerable documentary and aesthetic value. The maps in particular testify to the state of geographical knowledge at the end of the 19th century and are collector's objects in their own right.
Rarity and Heritage Interest Volumes of the Nouvelle Géographie Universelle still appear relatively regularly on the market, but the volume devoted to the Oceans is one of the most in demand, owing to the growing interest in maritime and oceanic history. A copy in good condition, retaining all its maps and illustrations, represents a prime acquisition for any lover of historical geography or 19th-century social thought.
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- Year
- ❧ 1889
- Century
- ❧ XIX
- Author
- Élisée Reclus
- Publisher
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- Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris
- Ref #
- NGU-614
- Dimensions
- 225 mm • 285 mm • 60 mm
- Weight
- 3500 gram
- Condition
- *** Good
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