Bright Paradise Victorian Scientific Travellers

Discusses travellers such as Sir Joseph Banks, Heinrich Barth, Henry Walter Bates, George Bentham, Margaret Brooke, Hugh Clapperton, Captain James Cook, Charles Darwin, General Sir Rufane Donkin, Francis Galton, Sir Joseph Hooker, Sir William Hooker, Alexander von Humboldt, Thomas Henry Huxley, Sir Harry Johnston, Mary Kingsley, John Lander, Richard Lander, Sir Charles Lyell, Marianne North, Richard Owen, Mungo Park, Captain James Ross, Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Waterton, and others.