Terra Incognita

Fantastic Worlds- Terra Incognita

By the mid-1800s, the polar regions and the interior of Africa were among the last parts of the globe to be seen and mapped by Western explorers. These remote locales became fixtures of popular culture, as armchair travelers read about perilous adventures in these new and unfamiliar worlds. Novelists adapted true-life narratives to their fictions and spun imaginative tales of adventure in unknown lands.

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Cover of Cinq semaines en ballon voyage de découvertes en Afrique par trois Anglais

Cinq semaines en ballon

Verne, Jules; Riou, Edouard; Montaut, Henri de
J. Hetzel et Cie
c1867
Cover of Cinq semaines en ballon voyage de découvertes en Afrique par trois Anglais

Cinq semaines en ballon

Verne, Jules; Riou, Edouard; Montaut, Henri de
J. Hetzel et Cie
c1867
Cover of Cinq semaines en ballon voyage de découvertes en Afrique par trois Anglais

Cinq semaines en ballon

Verne, Jules; Riou, Edouard; Montaut, Henri de
J. Hetzel et Cie
c1867
Cover of Missionary travels and researches in South Africa - including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the C

Missionary travels and researches in South Africa c.1

Livingstone, David; Day & Son,; William Clowes and Sons,; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
J. Murray
1857
Cover of Missionary travels and researches in South Africa - including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the C

Missionary travels and researches in South Africa c.1

Livingstone, David; Day & Son,; William Clowes and Sons,; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
J. Murray
1857
Cover of Missionary travels and researches in South Africa - including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the C

Missionary travels and researches in South Africa c.1

Livingstone, David; Day & Son,; William Clowes and Sons,; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
J. Murray
1857
Cover of Missionary travels and researches in South Africa - including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the C

Missionary travels and researches in South Africa c.1

Livingstone, David; Day & Son,; William Clowes and Sons,; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
J. Murray
1857
Cover of Northward ho!, or, Baffled, not beaten

Northward ho!, or, Baffled, not beaten

Barri, Odoardo; Cheyne, John P.; Concanen, Alfred; Stannard & Son; Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries)
J.B. Cramer & Co
[1879]
Cover of Northward ho!, or, Baffled, not beaten

Northward ho!, or, Baffled, not beaten

Barri, Odoardo; Cheyne, John P.; Concanen, Alfred; Stannard & Son; Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries)
J.B. Cramer & Co
[1879]
Cover of Northward ho!, or, Baffled, not beaten

Northward ho!, or, Baffled, not beaten

Barri, Odoardo; Cheyne, John P.; Concanen, Alfred; Stannard & Son; Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries)
J.B. Cramer & Co
[1879]
Cover of Northward ho!, or, Baffled, not beaten

Northward ho!, or, Baffled, not beaten

Barri, Odoardo; Cheyne, John P.; Concanen, Alfred; Stannard & Son; Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries)
J.B. Cramer & Co
[1879]

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